California Water Code ARTICLE 1.7 - Areas of Origin

• Section 1215.
  This article shall only apply to a water supplier exporting or intending to export water for use outside a protected area pursuant to applications to...
• Section 1215.5.
  (a) For the purposes of this article, “protected area”, means all of lands which normally drain to the ocean, to a hydraulic sink, or to another...
• Section 1215.6.
  For the purposes of this article, “water user or users” within a protected area means an appropriator or appropriators, a riparian user or users, or...
• Section 1216.
  A protected area shall not be deprived directly or indirectly of the prior right to all the water reasonably required to adequately supply the beneficial...
• Section 1217.
  (a) In addition to the right to obtain a water right which would have priority over the rights of an exporter, water users in a protected...
• Section 1218.
  Upon the request of an applicant for a permit to appropriate water for use outside a protected area, a county of origin shall cooperate with...
• Section 1219.
  A water supplier exporting or intending to export water outside a protected area, or a water user or users within a protected area, may declare...
• Section 1219.5.
  The provisions of this article shall not require any water supplier exporting or intending to export water for use outside a protected area to furnish...
• Section 1220.
  (a) No groundwater shall be pumped for export from within the combined Sacramento and Delta-Central Sierra Basins, as defined in the Department of Water Resources’ Bulletin...
• Section 1221.
  This article shall not be construed to authorize the board to regulate groundwater in any manner.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1655, Sec. 2.)
• Section 1222.
  Nothing in this article shall be deemed to diminish the rights and protections to watersheds of origin contained in existing law including, but not limited...

Last modified: October 22, 2018