Cornelius v. Department of Ecology

¶77 (dissenting) — It is well settled Western water law, as well as the law of this state, that municipal uses were not the same as domestic and community domestic and stock water uses under Washington law prior to the 2003 amendment of our state water laws, and a water right granted in the early 1960s for domestic and community domestic and stock water uses was not a right to put water to municipal use. Recognizing the rising de*610mand for water and the scarcity5 of this natural resource, in 1967, the legislature enacted relinquishment statutes subjecting water rights issued for community…