No right to appropriate water is perfected unless the water has been beneficially used for a purpose stated in the original declaration of intention to appropriate water or stated in a permit issued by the commission or one of its predecessors.
Tex. Water Code § 11.026
PERFECTION OF AN APPROPRIATION
Amended by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2207, ch. 870, Sec. 1, eff
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