Water Project Districts (South Dakota Codified Laws: Title 46A Water Management; Chapter 46A-18)

This chapter of South Dakota Codified Laws concerns water project districts. It provides that conservation, management, and development of the state's water resources are vital to the public interest, welfare, convenience, and necessity and require, in some circumstances, the creation of water project districts for the purposes of sponsoring and implementing water projects for the conservation, storage, distribution, and utilization of water and for the prudent management of water resources. Persons desiring to establish an area as a water project district may petition the Board of Water and Natural Resources to submit to an election the question of whether such area shall become a water project district.