A water supplier may contract with a state drought water bank or with any other state or local water supplier or user inside or outside the service area of the water supplier to transfer, or store as part of a transfer, water if the water supplier has allocated to the water users within its service area the water available for the water year, and no other user will receive less than the amount provided by that allocation or be otherwise unreasonably adversely affected without that user’s consent.

(Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 184, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1994.)

Terms Used In California Water Code 1745.04

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Water Code 18
  • water: includes the term "use of water. See California Water Code 1000
  • Water supplier: means a local public agency or private company supplying or storing water, or a mutual water company. See California Water Code 1745