Under Section
26.001
of
the Texas Water Code, "water in the state" has a specific
meaning:
"Water" or "water in the state" means groundwater,
percolating or otherwise, lakes, bays, ponds, impounding
reservoirs, springs, rivers, streams, creeks, estuaries, marshes,
inlets, canals, the Gulf of Mexico inside the territorial limits of
the state, and all other bodies of surface water, natural or
artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, navigable or
nonnavigable, and including the beds and banks of all watercourses
and bodies of surface water, that are wholly or partially inside or
bordering the state or inside the jurisdiction of the
state.
