In order to secure fresh water, a district may construct necessary levees, bridges, and other improvements across or under:

1. (1) railroad embankments, tracks, or rights-of-way;
2. (2) public or private roads and their rights-of-way;
3. (3) rivers;
4. (4) improvements of other districts and their rights-of-way; and
5. (5) other improvements and their rights-of-way.

Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 409, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30, 1971.