water bank

The water bank is at the foot of a steep hill and surrounded by deep forest to the right.

We have mink that live along the water bank, there are river beaver.

Only the church and the water banks still exist but the painting is deadly accurate.

Land is no longer being enrolled in Water Bank.

Some muskrats live in burrows on the water banks.

Boats float peacefully down the water banks, not distributing the water.

In Idaho a state water bank has promoted private transfers, with active leasing of water stored in government reservoirs.

I also have helped provide for a water bank, which allows Nevada to store excess water in times of abundance or in times of drought.

These include constructing new weirs and the "2,800 Acre Water Bank", and inter-basin levee system.

The water bank proposal, Mr. Graff concedes, is a crude first step toward a competitive market for water in which prices would equate value and cost.

Ms. Norton encouraged the formation of a "water bank" in the Klamath basin allowing farmers to be paid for relinquishing water to conservationists.

This Plan consists of a water bank system that aims at attributing quotas on the basis of social and environmental grounds, taking into account the water use efficiency.

Agrimony is another unusual find, growing in a riparian position on the Annick Water bank, together with wild Mint, just upstream of the old railway viaduct.

But the district said today that while it had the right to buy such water it would abandon its plan and would not compete with the Governor's state water bank.

Mr. Raley of the Interior Department said he wanted the states to consider a water bank, in which unused water could be leased or sold across state lines.

He is creating a "water bank" that would buy water this year from rice farmers, then store it in the state's underused reservoirs or sell it to other, needier users.

The Water Bank Program (WBP) is a United States program to set aside wetlands for a period of 10 years (renewable) for conservation purposes.

The new water bank would buy water from "willing sellers," pool it in reservoirs, largely through the state's vast system of aqueducts and canals, and resell to areas most in need.

Seines would be used to catch the gar around September, before they leave after the summer, to track their movements since they reside in the vegetation towards the edge of the water banks.

"A distance of 110 kilometres (67 miles) separates the old shore from current water banks, drying up land equal to the three Baltic states," said one report by the Kazakh Ministry of Health.

In the winter of 1991, at the height of the drought, the California Department of Water Resources created a "water bank" that bought water from farmers and resold it to urban users.

The proposal would set rules on the amount of water diverted for irrigation and create an "emergency water bank" so levels in the river could be adjusted when fish suffer disease or face other problems associated with low water flows.

Banking water is a related tool, wherein water is stored underground in non-drought years to be used in drought years, though this is not to be confused with water banks, which are brokering institutions.

But while the water bank was more successful than expected, the rice growers, who use more water each year than all the households in Los Angeles and San Francisco put together, hunkered down and refused to sell.

The water bank, which stopped solicitations this week because its goal had been met, made most of its purchases from farmers in the delta area, down river from here, where growers took corn and sugar beets out of production.