A district may control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recapture and salvage any water including but not limited to sewage waters for the beneficial use or uses of the district or its inhabitants or the owners of rights to waters therein.
Cal. Water Code § 22078
Water
Known as the Irrigation District Law
The act spans §§ 20500–29978 (1,017 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 19 Cal. App. 3d 1040 - People Ex Rel. Baker v. MacK (1971)
Most recently applied in Consolidated Irrigation District v. City of Selma (February 2012)
Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 719.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.