Practice question
A person legally appropriates water for an authorized irrigation purpose. It reaches the appropriator’s canal leading to the place of use and continues to be beneficially used for that purpose. The appropriator claims this gives ownership and unrestricted control of the entire upstream river forever. What does Article 8 actually establish?
- Ownership of every part of the watershed
- Control of all future rainfall without qualification
- Automatic cancellation of everyone else’s rights
- Only a right to photograph the canal
- Defined control from the stated canal or aqueduct point and thereafter while beneficially used for the appropriation purpose, not ownership of the whole river
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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