Sentences with phrase «allowing irrigators»

Kansas filed suit against Nebraska in 1998, accusing its neighbor of breaching a 1943 compact by allowing irrigators to drill wells along streams and tributaries and thus divert more than the state's legal share of the river's water.

The Government rather confusingly refers to the amendment as an «adjustment to the Sustainable Diversion Limits (SDL)» in the Northern Basin — «recovering water» from «environmental flows» rather than «allowing irrigators to use it for commercial gain».

Not exact matches

The Federal Government last week put forward an amendment to allow 70GL more than the 2012 Murray Darling Basin Plan (MDBP) recommended be withdrawn for big irrigators» consumption in the Northern Basin, an amendment that was voted down in the Senate.

We are working with stakeholders, including federal, state and local officials, water management agencies, irrigators and conservationists, on innovative water - sharing and trading schemes that would allow water to move more freely from place to place and user to user, depending on need and supply in any given year.