Water rights in California
California isn't on the map yet.
Most pre-1914 and riparian claims carry no priority date in the State Water Board's records, and California has no statewide groundwater-rights permit system to map.
Look up a right with the state: State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights
California at a glance
- Doctrine
- Riparian and appropriative rights side by side
- Permit cutoff
- Appropriations begun after 1914 need State Water Board approval
- Riparian rights
- Not lost by nonuse
- Groundwater
- Percolating groundwater is not permitted by the Board
- Record search
- CalWATRS