irrigation district

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irrigation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌɪr.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɪr.əˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
the practice of supplying land with water so that crops and plants ...
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district
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/us
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/
an area of a country or town that has fixed borders that are used for official purposes, or that has a particular feature that makes it different from ...
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(Definition ofirrigationanddistrictfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Typically, farmers pay 'water use' fees to theirrigationdistrictbased on farm size but not the amount of water actually consumed.
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It could also be the time required to improve communication between the farmer and theirrigationdistrict.
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Usually, a local non-profitirrigationdistrictacts as a middleman, taking water from large surface water supply systems and distributing and selling the water to farmers.
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Theirrigationdistrictalso agreed to transfer 800 cuft/s of its water right to an instream water right devoted to fish.
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It is the commercial centre to anirrigationdistrictbased on livestock, horticulture, lucerne and grain.
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It is the business and commercial centre of a prosperousirrigationdistrictwhich produces wine and dried fruit, as well as vegetables and wool.
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A localirrigationdistrictbuilt the dam in 1923.
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The landowner pays theirrigationdistrictassessments and does the irrigating himself.
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Theirrigationdistrictwas organized in 1906.
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A minority of irrigation districts manage groundwater as well.
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These data include farms inside the country's major irrigation districts.
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Exceptions include when the farm is in a salinity or land subsidence crisis region or is in one of the irrigation districts that manage both surface and groundwater supplies.
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Absolute value of t-statistics in parentheses; coefficients of irrigation districts are not reported.
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In 1966, work began to clear the foundations for a high dam that would replace an earlier structure built by two irrigation districts.
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The irrigation districts are now improving their irrigation system by changing most canals to pipelines in order to decrease contamination, spillage, and evaporation.
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The government also requested that the three irrigation districts increase their efficiency by 30%.
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In irrigation districts, poor drainage of soils and surface aquifers can result in water tables' coming to the surface in low-lying areas.
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Irrigation districts, from that year on, became open to privatization and have since been responsible for maintaining themselves.
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Informal trails exist on ditchbanks of local acequias and irrigation districts, on abandoned right-of-ways of old railroads, and on some publicly owned land.
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Agriculture is supported by the development of irrigation districts, which permits the raising of hay, grain, mint, potatoes, and seed.
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