Swiss Civil Code

¹ Where springs loc­ated near to each oth­er and be­long­ing to dif­fer­ent own­ers form a group rising from a com­mon catch­ment basin, each of the own­ers may re­quest that the springs be col­lect­ively cap­tured and chan­nelled to the right­ful users in pro­por­tion to the ex­ist­ing volume of flow.

² The costs of the com­mon in­stall­a­tions are borne by the right­ful users in pro­por­tion to their re­spect­ive in­terests.

³ If one user op­poses the re­quest, each user has the right to cap­ture and di­vert his or her own spring in the nor­mal man­ner, even if the volume of flow of the oth­er springs is thereby di­min­ished, and is li­able to pay com­pens­a­tion only to the ex­tent that his or her own spring is aug­men­ted by the new works.