indicators

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In normal and wet years, these two-way option contracts result in excess urban supplies being transferred to irrigators who then benefit from higher levels of agricultural productivity in these years.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2024

The increase includes 100% of its contractual allotments for agricultural users north of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, and 35% of allotments for irrigators south of the delta, up from 75% and 15%, respectively.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2024

And some are grappling with a lingering question of whether the state should pay for irrigators to give up their rights to water that could eventually be curtailed anyway as drought deepens.

From Washington Times • Mar. 31, 2023

They're working with stakeholders in the basin, including Tribal members, landowners, ranchers, irrigators and environmental advocates to inform decision making about managing water quality with an eye toward equity.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2023

We see already judges, merchants, scribes, irrigators, boatmen, carpenters, singers, shepherds, seers, branders, as well as slaves.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)