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2025 California Code
Water Code - WAT
DIVISION 1 - GENERAL STATE POWERS OVER WATER
CHAPTER 1 - General State Policy
Section 104.
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CA Water Code § 104 (2025)
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104. It is hereby declared that the people of the State have a paramount interest in the use of all the water of the State and that the State shall determine what water of the State, surface and underground, can be converted to public use or controlled for public protection.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
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