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DIVISION 2. WATER 1000-5951›PART 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS 1000-1126›CHAPTER 1. Definitions and Interpretation of Division 1000-1018

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

As used in this division, “useful or beneficial purposes” shall not be construed to mean the use in any one year of more than 212 acre-feet of water per acre in the irrigation of uncultivated areas of land not devoted to cultivated crops.

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

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