(a) A water control and improvement district organized under the provisions of Article III, § 52, of the Texas Constitution, may provide for:
(1) the improvement of rivers, creeks, and streams to prevent overflows, to permit navigation or irrigation, or to aid in these purposes; or
(2) the construction and maintenance of pools, lakes, reservoirs, dams, canals, and waterways for irrigation, drainage, or navigation, or to aid these purposes.
(b) A water control and improvement district organized under the provisions of Article XVI, § 59, of the Texas Constitution, may provide for:
(1) the control, storage, preservation, and distribution of its water and floodwater and the water of its rivers and streams for irrigation, power, and all other useful purposes;
(2) the reclamation and irrigation of its arid, semiarid, and other land which needs irrigation;
(3) the reclamation, drainage, conservation, and development of its forests, water, and hydroelectric power;
(4) the navigation of its coastal and inland water;
(5) the control, abatement, and change of any shortage or harmful excess of water;
(6) the protection, preservation, and restoration of the purity and sanitary condition of water within the state; and
(7) the preservation and conservation of all natural resources of the state.

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