Water Transfers in the West Efficiency, Equity, and the Environment (1992) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix A: Glossary
Pages 269-277
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Equal to 1.2 megaliters (ML) or 1,233.5 cubic APPROPRIATION DOCTRINE The system of water law dominant in the western United States under which (1)
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DEPLETION Net rate of water use from a stream or ground water aquifer for beneficial and nonbeneficial uses. For irrigation or municipal uses, the depletion is the headgate or wellhead diversion minus return flow to the same stream or ground water aquifer.
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EMINENT DOMAIN The authority of the federal or state government, or an agency or party authorized by the federal government, to condemn all interest in land for public purposes, after payment of just compensation. ESTUARY That portion of a coastal stream influenced by the tide of the body of water into which it flows, for example, a bay or mouth of a river, where the tide meets the river current; an area where fresh and marine waters mix.
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HYDROELECTRIC POWER GENERATION WATER USE The instream use of surface water to drive turbines and generate electric power, a nonwithdrawal use. HYDROLOGIC CYCLE The circuit of water movement from the atmosphere to the earth and return to the atmosphere through various stages or processes, such as precipitation, interception, runoff, infiltration, percolation, storage, evaporation, and transpiration.
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Provides water requirements of plants not satisfied by rainfall. IRRIGATION DISTRICT In the United States, a cooperative, self-governing public corporation set up as a subdivision of the state, with definite geographic boundaries, organized to obtain and distribute water for irrigation of lands within the district; created under authority of the state legislature with the consent of a designated fraction of the landowners or citizens and having taxing power.
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Water suppliers provide water for a variety of uses such as domestic, commercial, industrial, and public water use. PUBLIC TRUST DOCTRINE A poorly defined judicial doctrine under which the state holds its navigable waters and underlying beds in trust for the public and is required or authorized to protect the public interest in such waters.
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Federal reserved water rights may be claimed when Congress has by statute withdrawn lands from the public domain for a particular federal purpose or where the President has withdrawn lands from the public domain for a particular federal ouroose pursuant to congressional authorization. rib - 1- 1 - 1 RETURN FLOW The amount of water that reaches a ground or surface water source after release from the point of use and thus becomes available for further use.
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These affected parties can include areas of origin, Indian tribes, other minority cultures (primarily Hispanic) , communities that depend on irrigated agriculture or water-based recreation, boaters, anglers, and broad segments of the public who care about wetlands, riparian areas, endangered species, instream flows, and other environmental values that might be harmed or enhanced by a change in water use.
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WATER DEMAND—Water requirements for a particular purpose, such as irrigation, power, municipal supply, plant transpiration, or storage. WATER MANAGEMENT Application of practices to obtain added benefits from precipitation, water, or water flow in any of a number of areas, such as irrigation, drainage, wildlife and recreation, water supply, watershed management, and water storage in soil for crop production.
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