Practice question
Under Article 6, how is groundwater found beneath private land treated as to ownership?
- It always belongs privately to the surface owner
- It is ownerless until pumped
- It belongs to the well contractor automatically
- It belongs to the State
- It belongs only to the local utility
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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