Sentences with phrase «water users associations»

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.

As of 2009, China has more than 40,000 water users associations to locally manage water resources and to maximize water use efficiency.

Mexico is a leader in developing water users associations.

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.

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One sector of the watershed investment marketplace that is currently underutilized is that of water users — water utilities, hydropower generators, irrigator associations, bottling plants, households, and others who stand to benefit directly from improvements in watershed services.

The scoring system offers immediate feedback as to whether you're saving water or using too much and it also avoids a direct association with the water bill so that users are focusing on saving water, not just saving money.