{"id":1454,"date":"2014-10-04T00:34:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T00:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2014-10-04T00:34:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T00:34:35","slug":"whose-water-is-it-anyway-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/04\/whose-water-is-it-anyway-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WHOSE WATER IS IT ANYWAY?  &#8211; part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(2)\u00a0 WATER IN A WATERCOURSE.\u00a0 Texas owns the surface water in a watercourse.\u00a0 Case law defines it as a channel with a defined bed, visible banks &amp; an intermittent flow of water.\u00a0 Landowners can use the water for limited purposes,\u00a0 such as livestock and home use.\u00a0 &#8220;Riparian water rights&#8221; means owners\u00a0 can use water on or near their property.\u00a0 (2)\u00a0 IMPOUNDING SURFACE WATER &#8211; a state permit needs to be granted.\u00a0 To build a dam, must follow TWC specifications.\u00a0 NO commercial use.\u00a0 (3)\u00a0 OWNERSHIP OF SPRING WATER &#8211; depends on whether water flows off the property, although the landowners does have &#8220;riparian water rights&#8221;.\u00a0 If water stays on landowner&#8217;s property, then it is his.\u00a0 (4)\u00a0 MINERALS AND WATERCOURSES &#8211; in Texas, the ownership of the minerals under a watercourse (stream) depends on if streambeds are navigable watercourses.\u00a0 The public and ingress and egress up &amp; down the steambed.\u00a0 PART 3 CONTINUED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(2)\u00a0 WATER IN A WATERCOURSE.\u00a0 Texas owns the surface water in a watercourse.\u00a0 Case law defines it as a channel with a defined bed, visible banks &amp; an intermittent flow of water.\u00a0 Landowners can use the water for limited purposes,\u00a0 such as livestock and home use.\u00a0 &#8220;Riparian water rights&#8221; means owners\u00a0 can use water on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}