{"data":{"id":"us-ca/wat-1242","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"WAT § 1242","heading":"","body":"The storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of such storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage was made.","path":["Water Code - WAT","DIVISION 2. WATER [1000. - 5951.]","PART 2. APPROPRIATION OF WATER [1200. - 1851.]","CHAPTER 1. General Provisions [1200. - 1248.]","ARTICLE 4. Beneficial Use [1240. - 1244.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"858522001d0ac7464aaab05d17637d26acad328807a7efcda16c9297714a9025","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/wat-1241.6","next":"us-ca/wat-1242.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}