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Show 614 EXERCISE OF THE APPROPRIATIVE RIGHT prescribed by the Texas Water Rights Commission (art. 7548). As directed by the statute, the Commission has promulgated rules and regulations governing such use of natural stream channels (rules 520.1 to 520.6). When stored storm and flood waters are released from storage on an international stream and are designated for capture downstream by a specified user entitled thereto, interference with the passage of such waters is declared unlawful and the Commission is empowered to effectuate the statutory provisions (art. 7550a).108 Utah.- With approval of the State Engineer, appropriated water may be turned into a natural stream channel or body of water, or into an on-channel reservoir, commingled with its waters, and rediverted, minus transmission losses, either above or below the point of discharge into the stream, but without injuriously affecting the quantity or quality of water already there. Incoming water bears its equitable share of reservoir costs. Withdrawals are not to interfere with rights of others.109 Washington. -Water may be conveyed along a natural stream or lake, allowance for transmission losses to be determined by the Director of Ecology. Compensation is payable for injuries caused by raising the water level above high water mark.11 ° Wyoming. -A streambed may be used to carry impounded water to the consumer, or a ditch may be used to carry such water to a person having the right to have the water carried therethrough, under regulations by the water commissioner. Part of the expense of supervision is charged against the reservoir operator (§ 41-29). If prior appropriators are not injured, junior appropriators may divert from a stream, for irrigation, industrial, or municipal purposes, direct flow to which downstream seniors are entitled, in lieu of an equal quantity of water stored by the upstream juniors in reservoirs located below their lands and discharged into the stream above the lands of the downstream seniors. The exchange is authorized by secondary permit from the State Engineer and is administered by the water commissioner (§§ 41-42 to 44). Appropriators of waters of streams or springs or collections of still water may arrange among themselves such agreements for delivery and use of either storage or direct flow water from another source to fill out their appropriations or accomplish fuller use of public water, but with no adverse effect upon other rights. Such use is without prejudice to the original appropriator (§§ 41-5 to -8).111 I08Tex. Rev. Civ. Stat. Ann. aits. 7548 (1954) and 7550a (Supp. 1970). Tex. Water Rights Comm'n, "Rules, Regulations and Modes of Procedure," rules 520.1 to 520.6 (1970 Rev., Jan 1970). 109Utah Code Ann. § 73-3-20 (1968). 110Wash. Rev. Code § 90.03.030 (Supp. 1961). 1' *Wyo. Stat. Ann. § § 41-5 to -8, -29, -44 (1957), -42, and -43 (Supp. 1969). |