Key legal question
Whether AFU could decide incidentally on the legality of side-water uses in the sanitation proceedings.
Extracted holding
Yes. The AFU could make a preliminary determination, and there was no arbitrariness in not awaiting a separate Regierungsrat decision.
Extracted reasoning
The sanitation was urgent, the Regierungsrat later reviewed the issue on appeal with full cognisance, and procedural economy justified not suspending the case.