§ 240 Water System Definition

Public Utilities Code·California

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Key Takeaways

•A 'water system' includes everything used to control, move, or use water.
•This can be big things like dams and pipes, or small things like tools to measure water.
•It covers water used for homes, farms, factories, and making electricity.

Example

A town has a big tank to store water, pipes to carry it to houses, and a meter to measure how much water each house uses.

All these things—the tank, pipes, and meter—are part of the town’s water system because they help get water to people’s homes.

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§ 240 Water System Definition

“Water system” includes all reservoirs, tunnels, shafts, dams, dikes, headgates, pipes, flumes, canals, structures, and appliances, and all other real estate, fixtures, and personal property, owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate the diversion, development, storage, supply, distribution, sale, furnishing, carriage, apportionment, or measurement of water for power, irrigation, reclamation, or manufacturing, or for municipal, domestic, or other beneficial use. (Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)

Last verified: January 23, 2026

Key Terms

water system diversion development storage supply distribution sale furnishing carriage apportionment measurement

References

Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
California Legislature. Public Utilities Code. Section 240.

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