Water rights: appropriation.

(1) Existing law authorizes any person to obtain a right to appropriate water for small domestic use or livestock stockpond use upon registering the use with the State Water Resources Control Board and upon thereafter applying the water to reasonable and beneficial use with due diligence. For these purposes, existing law defines a small domestic use as a domestic use, as defined by board rule, including impoundment for incidental aesthetic, recreational, or fish and wildlife purposes, not to exceed direct diversion of 4,500 gallons per day or diversion to storage of 10 acre-feet per annum. With regard to small domestic use, existing law prohibits more than one registration from being in…