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RCW 90.40.020

Right to use water courses.

The United States shall have the right to turn into any natural or artificial water course, any water that it may have acquired the right to store, divert, or store and divert, and may again divert and reclaim said waters from said water course for irrigation purposes subject to existing rights.
[ 1905 c 88 s 2; RRS s 7409.]