DIVISION 1. GENERAL STATE POWERS OVER WATER 100-540›CHAPTER 2.5. Miscellaneous Powers of Department 205-347›ARTICLE 4. Waste from Artesian Wells 300-311

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California Water Code · 2020-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

The use of any water flowing from an artesian well for the irrigation of land, whenever over 5 per cent of the water received on the land for irrigation purposes is permitted to escape from the land, is waste within the meaning of this article.

(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

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