Swiss Civil Code

¹ Where landown­ers make no use of springs, wells or streams, or make very little use there­of in com­par­is­on with their po­ten­tial util­ity, they may be re­quired to cede them in ex­change for full com­pens­a­tion for sup­ply­ing drink­ing wa­ter, fire hy­drants or oth­er uses in the pub­lic in­terest.

² Such com­pens­a­tion may take the form of wa­ter sup­plied from the new in­stall­a­tion.