surplus water

Example Sentences

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Nine years out of 10, they’ll receive payment from a conservation group in exchange for leaving the surplus water in the river.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2022

This was the first year in memory that Fort Bragg could not sell its surplus water to Mendocino Village, an old lumber town of historic Victorians and homegrown boutiques.

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2021

She is one of dozens of farmers downstream from Tham Luang Cave whose fields have been flooded by the surplus water pumped out to reduce flood levels in the cavern.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2018

Brown said the plan would actually help store surplus water that California would get in wet years, which could then be transported down to Southern California and fill in empty reservoirs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2015

The varying conditions of wetness, and the different sources of surplus water, must be regarded in deciding precisely how much of this work is needed, and how it should be done.

From Village Improvements and Farm Villages by Waring, George E. (George Edwin)