Sentences with phrase «senior rights to its water»
Most of those state laws share the basic principle that the first people to arrive in the West should hold the most senior rights to its water.
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The government has watered down its plan to put forward a bill on replacing the Human Rights Act with a British bill of rights, bowing to reported disquiet among senior Conservative backbenRights Act with a British bill of rights, bowing to reported disquiet among senior Conservative backbenrights, bowing to reported disquiet among senior Conservative backbenchers.
In times of drought, those with the oldest, or most senior, rights to water would get it first; those with the newest rights would have to wait at the back of the line.
California has been grappling with this realization as its most senior water rights holders have begun to relinquish part of their share.
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Water regulators said they approved a plan by some of the state's most senior water rights holders to voluntarily cut back water use by 25 % in exchange for assurances they would not face furtherWater regulators said they approved a plan by some of the state's most senior water rights holders to voluntarily cut back water use by 25 % in exchange for assurances they would not face furtherwater rights holders to voluntarily cut back water use by 25 % in exchange for assurances they would not face furtherwater use by 25 % in exchange for assurances they would not face further cuts
Water in the West is governed through archaic systems of rights, in which senior rights holders get first dibs on water supplies, which they lose to junior rights holders if they don't use them alWater in the West is governed through archaic systems of rights, in which senior rights holders get first dibs on water supplies, which they lose to junior rights holders if they don't use them alwater supplies, which they lose to junior rights holders if they don't use them all up.