The authority has the powers of a conservation and reclamation district under the constitution and other laws of this state, including the powers:

1. (1) expressly authorized in Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, for a district created to conserve, store, control, preserve, use, and distribute the storm water and floodwater and the water of the rivers and streams of the state;
2. (2) implied by the purposes of that section of the constitution; and
3. (3) given by general law.

Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1277, Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2005.