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Show ELEMENTS OF THE APPROPRIATIVE RIGHT 533 (a) California.473 Domestic: Uses common to homes, resorts, motels, organization camps, and campgrounds (for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes). Included are incidental watering of domestic stock for family sustenance, and irrigation of one-half acre in lawn, ornamental shrubbery, gardens and truck. Municipal: All uses common to the municipal water supply of a city, town, or other similar population group, and use incidental thereto for any beneficial purpose. (b) South Dakota.474 Domestic: Use by an individual or family unit or household for drinking, washing, sanitary, culinary, and other ordinary household purposes. Included are one-half acre in family garden, trees, shrubbery, or orchard, and stockwatering. Municipal: Use by the State through its institutions, facilities and properties or a municipality and its inhabitants whether supplied by the government or by a privately-owned public utility or other agency, primarily to promote the life, safety, health, comfort, and business pursuits of the inhabitants. Does not include crop irrigation on a commercial scale, even within the limits of the State institution, facility, property or municipality, nor large recreational uses such as lakes. (c) Texas.475 Domestic: Use by an individual or family unit or household for drinking, washing, culinary purposes. Includes irrigation of family garden or orchard for family food, and watering of domestic animals. Municipal: Use within or without a municipality and its environs, whether supplied by a person, a political subdivision, a privately-owned public utility, or other agency or party, primarily to promote the safety, life, health, comfort, and business pursuits of the users. Specifically includes use for fighting fires, flushing sewers, sprinkling streets, watering parks and parkways, small recreational uses such as swimming pools; use in public and private buildings, industrial enterprises supplied by a municipal distribution system without special construction, and homes, and irrigation of lawns and family gardens. (3) Highly favored uses of water, (a) Domestic use of water in rural areas, and municipal use with which domestic use is integrated in organized urban communities, are highly favored in the law. Consumption of water for drinking-without which life ceases-and its use for culinary and sanitation purposes, are obviously necessary to serve human life, health, and comfort whether on the farm or in town. Use of water for business pursuits of the 473CaL Admin. Code, tit. 23, § § 661 and 664 (1969). 474 S. Dak. Comp. Laws Ann. § § 46-1-6(4) and (5) (1967). 475Tex. Water Rights Comm'n, "Rules, Regulations and Modes of Procedure," rule 115.Us) (1970 Rev., Jan. 1970) and (u) (June 1970 addendum to 1970 Rev.). |
