CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE X
WATER

Art. X §1 | EMINENT DOMAIN ON WATER

The right of eminent domain is hereby declared to exist in the State to all frontages on the navigable waters of this State.

Art. X §2 | BENEFICIAL USE OF WATER

It is hereby declared that because of the conditions prevailing in this State the general welfare requires that the water resources of the State be put to beneficial use to the fullest extent of which they are capable, and that the waste or unreasonable use or unreasonable method of use of water be prevented, and that the conservation of such waters is to be exercised with a view to the reasonable and beneficial use thereof in the interest of the people and for the public welfare. The right to water or to the use or flow of water in or from any natural stream or water course in this State is and shall be limited to such water as shall be reasonably required for the beneficial use to be served, and such right does not and shall not extend to the waste or unreasonable use or unreasonable method of use or unreasonable method of diversion of water. Riparian rights in a stream or water course attach to, but to no more than so much of the flow thereof as may be required or used consistently with this section, for the purposes for which such lands are, or may be made adaptable, in view of such reasonable and beneficial uses; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as depriving any riparian owner of the reasonable use of water of the stream to which the owner’s land is riparian under reasonable methods of diversion and use, or as depriving any appropriator of water to which the appropriator is lawfully entitled. This section shall be self-executing, and the Legislature may also enact laws in the furtherance of the policy in this section contained.

Art. X §3 | NEARBY TIDELANDS ARE NOT FOR SALE

All tidelands within two miles of any incorporated city, city and county, or town in this State, and fronting on the water of any harbor, estuary, bay, or inlet used for the purposes of navigation, shall be withheld from grant or sale to private persons, partnerships, or corporations; provided, however, that any such tidelands, reserved to the State solely for street purposes, which the Legislature finds and declares are not used for navigation purposes and are not necessary for such purposes may be sold to any town, city, county, city and county, municipal corporations, private persons, partnerships or corporations subject to such conditions as the Legislature determines are necessary to be imposed in connection with any such sales in order to protect the public interest.

Art. X §4 | CANNOT EXLUDE RIGHT-OF-WAY

No individual, partnership, or corporation, claiming or possessing the frontage or tidal lands of a harbor, bay, inlet, estuary, or other navigable water in this State, shall be permitted to exclude the right of way to such water whenever it is required for any public purpose, nor to destroy or obstruct the free navigation of such water; and the Legislature shall enact such laws as will give the most liberal construction to this provision, so that access to the navigable waters of this State shall be always attainable for the people thereof.

Art. X §5 | PUBLIC USE OF WATER

The use of all water now appropriated, or that may hereafter be appropriated, for sale, rental, or distribution, is hereby declared to be a public use, and subject to the regulation and control of the State, in the manner to be prescribed by law.

Art. X §6 | RIGHT TO COLLECT COMPENSATION

The right to collect rates or compensation for the use of water supplied to any county, city and county, or town, or the inhabitants thereof, is a franchise, and cannot be exercised except by authority of and in the manner prescribed by law.

Art. X §7 | INTEREST ON REAL PROPERTY

Whenever any agency of government, local, state, or federal, hereafter acquires any interest in real property in this State, the acceptance of the interest shall constitute an agreement by the agency to conform to the laws of California as to the acquisition, control, use, and distribution of water with respect to the land so acquired.

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CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE X
WATER

Art. X §1 | EMINENT DOMAIN ON WATER

Art. X §2 | BENEFICIAL USE OF WATER

Art. X §3 | NEARBY TIDELANDS ARE NOT FOR SALE

Art. X §4 | CANNOT EXLUDE RIGHT-OF-WAY

Art. X §5 | PUBLIC USE OF WATER

Art. X §6 | RIGHT TO COLLECT COMPENSATION

Art. X §7 | INTEREST ON REAL PROPERTY

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CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTIONARTICLE XWATER

Art. X §1 | EMINENT DOMAIN ON WATER

Art. X §2 | BENEFICIAL USE OF WATER

Art. X §3 | NEARBY TIDELANDS ARE NOT FOR SALE

Art. X §4 | CANNOT EXLUDE RIGHT-OF-WAY

Art. X §5 | PUBLIC USE OF WATER

Art. X §6 | RIGHT TO COLLECT COMPENSATION

Art. X §7 | INTEREST ON REAL PROPERTY

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