The purpose of the corporation is for the development, sale, distribution, supply and delivery of water for irrigation purposes to its members within the lands of its service area. It is also organized to assist in providing surface and subsruface drainage to the lands described in the service area, to undertake or promote soil, water and drainage conservation activities upon those lands, and to acquire, preserve and administer contractual and appropriative rights for irrigation water, and to distribute water available under the riparian rights of members, including the improvement of the land, to supply water for irrigation purposes.