Practice question
A landowner wastes water rising on private land during an emergency and invokes Article 6’s domestic-use provision as an absolute defense against any regulation. Which is correct?
- The allowance is absolute even during wastage
- Emergency regulation can never reach private land
- The land title repeals the Water Code
- Article 6 expressly preserves regulation in cases of wastage or emergency; the domestic-use allowance is not unlimited
- The owner acquires all neighboring rivers
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1976/pd_1067_1976.html — Water Code, Articles 3 and 5–8
- https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html — Constitution, Article XII section 2, State ownership of waters
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