The storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of such storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage was made.
Cal. Water Code § 1242
Beneficial Use
Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.
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