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

Once those rules for handling surplus water were completed, the Colorado River Basin plunged into drought in the early 2000s.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 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

If there is a concrete floor, the pots must be raised on bricks, that surplus water may pass off.

From The Book of Pears and Plums by Bartrum, Edward