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Show METHODS OF APPROPRIATING WATER OF WATERCOURSES 421 the South Dakota statute there is a definition of "municipal use" as the use of water by a municipality and its inhabitants to promote the life, safety, health, comfort, and business pursuits of the inhabitants.948 The rules and regulations of the California State Water Resources Control Board pertaining to appropriation of water define domestic uses as those "common to homes, resorts, motels, organization camps, camp grounds, etc.;" including the incidental watering of domestic stock for family sustenance and the irrigation of not to exceed one-half acre in lawn, ornamental shrubbery, gardens and truck at any single establishment," and municipal use as including "all those uses common to the municipal water supply of a city, town, or other similar population group, and use incidental thereto for any beneficial purpose."949 Those of the Texas Water Rights Commission define domestic use of water by an individual, or by a family unit or household, for usual house- hold purposes, including watering of domestic animals, and municipal use as: the use of water 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. It specifically includes the use of water for fighting fires, flushing sewers, sprinkling streets, watering parks and parkways, and small quantities of water for recreational purposes such as swimming pools; the use of water in public and private buildings, industrial enterprises supplied by a municipal distribution system without special construction to meet its demands, and homes, and the irrigation of lawns and family gardens.950 Neither the South Dakota statute, nor the California or Texas administrative rules, draw-or suggest-any distinction between the use of water supplied by a municipality to its population for drinking and other household purposes, and of water supplied by the city for the varied living and business needs of the segment of civilization-the aggregate human organism-comprising its individ- ual inhabitants. Preferences in the use of water as among domestic, municipal, manufactur- ing, or other purposes-however well adapted they may be to competing uses of water as among diversions from a stream system-may be difficult to apply to the many facets of use of a municipal water supply system within a complicated metropolitan area.951 Cities may serve water from comprehensive 948Kans. Stat. Ann. §§82a-701, -705, -705a, and -709 (1969); S. Dak. Comp. Laws Ann. § §46-1-5, 46-1-6(4) and (5), and 46-5-8 (1967). 949 Cal. Admin. Code, tit. 23, § §661 and 664 (1969). 9S0Tex. Water Rights Comm'n, "Rules, Regulations and Modes of Procedure," rule 115.1(s) (1970 Rev., Jan. 1970) and (u) (June 4, 1970 addendum to 1970 Rev.). 9S1 Compare the discussion of "Purpose of Use of Water," under the riparian doctrine, in chapter 10. The City of Brownwood, Texas, had acquired contractual rights from riparian owners to use water for "general municipal purposes." This was held to give it |