The use of any water flowing from an artesian well for the irrigation of land, whenever over 5 per cent of the water received on the land for irrigation purposes is permitted to escape from the land, is waste within the meaning of this article.
Cal. Water Code § 302
Waste from Artesian Wells
Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.
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