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The California Water Commission Act of 1913 was the first attempt by the legislature of the state of California to address water rights in a comprehensive manner. The Act was necessitated by the complicated landscape of competing water rights doctrines, demands for reclamation and irrigation, and tension between large landowners and smaller farmers all in the context of California's unique ...
As a result of the recommendation of the study commission, Maryland Delegate Paul Waters introduced a bill to establish the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, and the General Assembly passed the bill on April 8, 1916. WSSC Water was originally created to study the drainage situation in Montgomery and Prince George's counties and to ...
(The Center Square) — The Louisiana Water Sector Commission met on Thursday to discuss various projects designed to improve Louisiana's drinking water infrastructure. There were three type of ...
On November 20, 2012, the International Boundary and Water Commission of the United States and Mexico signed an agreement termed "Minute 319," which updated the Law of the River to address how the 1,500,000 acre-feet (1.9 km 3) of Colorado River water that Mexico receives every year would be affected by surplus or drought conditions. [47]
The commission is charged with protecting and regulating state groundwater and stream water resources under the State Water Code and plans adopted by the commission.
The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor (WCNYH) was a regulatory agency in the Port of New York and New Jersey in the northeast of the United States. The bi-state agency was founded in 1953 by a Congressionally authorized compact between New York and New Jersey "for the purpose of eliminating various evils on the waterfront in the Port of New York Harbor."
The compact also sets a minimum quality standard, as in the event that Colorado was to construct water projects later for the purpose of delivering water into the Rio Grande from the Closed Basin, the state would not be credited with the water delivered unless the sodium ions in the water do not exceed 45% of the total positive ions when the ...
Although the commission's present structure has existed since 1945, its creation was rooted to earlier events. The water system began in 1844 with the formation of the Halifax Water Company, a private firm under contract to the City of Halifax who hired the engineer Charles Fairbanks to survey the lakes around the city and New York engineer John Jarvis to design the system. [1]