(a) “Board” shall mean the Water and Power Resources Board of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,¹ or any other board or commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereafter created as successor to, or in substitution for, or vested with the authority now vested in, the Water and Power Resources Board.

(b) “Public water supply agency” shall mean any corporation or any municipal or quasi-municipal corporation, district, or authority, now existing or hereafter incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and vested with the power, authority, right, or franchise to supply water to the public in all or part of any municipal or political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

(c) “Acquire” shall mean to secure or become vested with rights, either by purchase, lease, gift, devise, adverse possession, prescription, eminent domain, waiver of damages, settlement of damages, appropriation, or otherwise.

(d) “Acquisition” shall mean the act of acquiring or the rights acquired.

(e) “Water rights” shall mean the right to take or divert water from any rivers, streams, natural lakes and ponds, or other surface waters within or partly within and partly without the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, except water rights heretofore or hereafter acquired under the Act of June 14, 1923, Pamphlet Laws 704.²