What benefit do I enjoy as a result of getting a water right permit or license or filing my Statement of Water Diversion and Use with the Division of Water Rights?
• You will have priority to use water over persons who later file for water rights from the same source. • The Division of Water Rights will notify you if someone is applying to divert water upstream from your diversion. You will have a chance to protest the proposed diversion and seek modification or denial of the project. • You will receive protection of your investment in the right to divert water for beneficial use on your farm for irrigation, a feedlot, recreational reservoir, or in your municipality, water supply district, or industry. If you have water rights, you have legal standing to assert those rights against later conflicting water users who do not have water rights. • If there is not enough water to supply the demands of all water users, the State Water Board will impose diversion restrictions. Those restrictions are imposed in order of water right priority. If you do not get a water right, the State will not protect you from those who developed their water use after you
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- I have a water right permit/license that authorizes the diversion of water to storage in my reservoir. Can I convert my permitted /licensed storage right to a stockpond registration?
- I have not exercised my right for a period of 5 or more years. Haven\t I forfeited my water right permit or license based on non-use of water?
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