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If, due to the
seasonal drying of a brook, creek, or rivulet, or the diversion of a stream, or
the evaporation of a pond during a prolonged period of drought, or the emptying
of an artificial lagoon for regular cleaning, or an outflow from a marsh due to
tidal action, or a scheduled release from an impoundment, or the draining of a
reservoir, or a permanent and persistent state of desiccation in improperly designed
or designated terrain, a water hazard fails at any time to contain a sufficient
volume of actual, formal water physically standing or moving within its boundaries
to cover at least one half of its total staked area, it ceases to be a valid water
hazard and its status is automatically downgraded to "water nuisance." A player
whose ball has come to rest on ground inside the margins of any such water nuisance
may, without penalty, lift and clean his ball for purposes of identification,
move loose impediments from it, and ground his club when striking it, or, if it
lies in any remaining incidental water in the nuisance, he may remove his ball
from that water and drop it in the nearest playable lie on dry and level ground.
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