Sentences with phrase «water users»

«The community of water users needs to figure this out,» he adds.

Most of the new power plants are big water users despite being planned for desert locations.

Part of the financial plan could rely on city water users to help pay back borrowing, she said today.

The authority stated that for an average residential water user — using 17,000 gallons of water a year — this will work out to an additional 85 cents on their bill per quarter.

And that $ 44 million assumes the number of water users would remain the same, another factor bound to change over time.

In addition, despite considerable water quality improvement over the past 2 decades, blue green algae is a problem for water users in some areas of the Broads National Park.

Groundwater resources are critical for water users, but also contribute significantly to natural streamflow throughout the year.

Institutional shifts — specifically, moving the responsibility for managing irrigation systems from government agencies to local water users associations — can facilitate the more efficient use of water.

Mexico is a leader in developing water users associations.

It also provides a voluntary framework for major water users to understand the effects of their water use and to work collaboratively and transparently for sustainable water management.

So - called «unconcerned water users» lack the strong perceived value for water resources, Warner said.

That means downstream water users in Southern California, Arizona and elsewhere could be headed for serious trouble in coming years if the drought continues.

Projected shifts in temperature and precipitation are likely to reduce diffuse recharge to the Fox Hills — Hell Creek aquifer and accelerate the current depletion by water users.

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International and Domestic Water Challenges As we enter the 21st century, pressures on United States and international water resources are growing and conflicts among water users are worsening.

Village staff said about half of that increase was tied to Chicago's water rates, which have been dramatically spiked for suburban water users in recent years.

by Peter Gleick, President October 18, 2014 In a new study just published by the journal Sustainability Science (Springer), analysis from the Pacific Institute shows that many of the fundamental responses of California water users to severe drought actually make the state's overall water conditions worse — that in the end, many of these actions are «maladaptations.»

Drought - reduced flows in the Colorado River have left Lake Mead with an outsized «bathtub ring» that makes western water users nervous.

As the report shows, heavy residential water users pay substantially more per gallon in Seattle, Tucson, and Irvine Ranch, CA than they do in Las Vegas.

The cross-sectoral effort has resulted in the establishment of the Kakum Basin Board, which will direct watershed investments with funds from water users.

To mitigate these impacts, drought preparedness that responds to human needs, while preserving environmental quality and ecosystems, requires involvement of all stakeholders including water users and water providers to achieve solutions for drought.

Highly inefficient water users — such as Egypt, Ethiopia, and Iran — use as much as 95 %.

The AWS International Water Stewardship Standard aims to support water users globally in taking appropriate...

«We sat in a Barwon - Darling water users meeting at Bourke where the then - minister, Kevin Humphries, stated on three separate occasions, after being questioned directly by the members of the room, is it an event - by - event basis?

The municipality has not received $ 240,000 Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised two months ago, according to Village Mayor David Borge, which means he can't reimburse water users.

One solution California may consider is whether more efficient, user - friendly water markets would help water users adapt more quickly to drought conditions, and better cope with long - term water scarcity stemming from climate change and increased water demand.

This year, Syracuse water users will pay nearly $ 22 million for service.

Others, such as Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell and North Fork Environmental Council president Bill Toedter, are right to question the fairness of the fee if it only has to be paid by public water users, as well as its effectiveness, if the many East End residents connected to well water don't reap the benefits.

In the face of these combined demands on the already overtapped aquifer, many High Plains water users are joining Funk in reassessing their futures.

They are grappling with how to maintain successful agricultural operations while relying on less and less water, an issue that water users throughout the region, and the world, must eventually face, Rude says.

There's no quicker way to make a Colorado rancher bristle than to suggest that the water he applies to his meadows is wasted, but the science — and Ketterhagen's observations — suggest many water users could get by with less.

«Ninety percent of water users thought water running downstream was wasted water,» said Cary Denison, the Gunnison basin project coordinator for Trout Unlimited, a sportsmen's and river conservation group working with ranchers to get them to use less water.

asked Ken Spann, one of western Colorado's significant water users, who farms thousands of acres between Crested Butte and the town of Delta downstream.

Each Colorado River basin state has a variation of rules promising to confiscate water rights if water users don't maximize their use.

Spring high tides combined with strong winds and large waves can make entering and exiting the water dangerous for un experienced water users.

Checking that your surfboard and equipment is in working order and appropriate for the conditions only takes a minute and is your responsibility as a safe water user.

This compact sand shapes how the waves approach the beach and how they break, although «the bay» is not always favoured for highly experienced & advanced surfers due to the wave shape — surfing and general water users flock to the beaches for a host of other benefits.

Parties to the Basin Agreement include American Rivers and 8 other conservation organizations; four tribes (Karuk, Yurok, Klamath and Hoopa); Klamath County (OR), Siskiyou and Humboldt Counties (CA), the Klamath Water Users Association, farmers outside of the federal irrigation project, the Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman's Associations, the states of Oregon and California, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce.

In Tunisia, where water users associations manage both irrigation and residential water, the number of associations increased from 340 in 1987 to 2,575 in 1999, covering much of the country.

Finally, they argue that California needs to monitor and control groundwater withdrawals (a California Assembly bill to do this was sent into legislative limbo this spring) and to crack down on profligate water users whose excesses are in violation of the legal requirement that water use be «beneficial.»

While New York City water users appear to be well protected from fracking in their watershed, as Wenonah Hauter of Food & Water Watch says of Bloomberg, «He speaks for himself, not the upstate New Yorkers who would be most directly and most immediately affected by fracking.»

(The USGS has also been pushing water users to address the problem, there's no lack of scientific approaches, just a lack of lawyers willing to consider them.)

Truly achieving sustainability will require not only greater transparency and inclusion of diverse interests (not just large water users or surface water rights holders, as in the past) but also better information.

Advised water user association in matters of corporate governance represented association in negotiations with the state - owner of the water project and provided counsel concerning state water rights law and marketing water to private users.