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90.14.220 - No rights to be acquired by prescription or adverse use.

No rights to be acquired by prescription or adverse use.

No rights to the use of surface or ground waters of the state affecting either appropriated or unappropriated waters thereof may be acquired by prescription or adverse use.

[1967 c 233 § 22.]

Notes:Application to Yakima river basin trust water rights: RCW 90.38.040.