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The district has not had a mandatory watering schedule since the drought of 2015. But this year it could move to a mandatory, enforced watering schedule in July, it says.
A mandatory water schedule for Kennewick Irrigation District residential users will lift Sunday, but customers are asked to continue to follow a voluntary schedule, KID announced Wednesday ...
The Kennewick Irrigation District will request that its customers follow a voluntary watering schedule this summer as it keeps a close eye on how much water it will have to distribute.. If the ...
Irrigation scheduling is the process used by irrigation system managers to determine the correct frequency and duration of watering. The following factors may be taken into consideration: Precipitation rate of the irrigation equipment – how quickly the water is applied, often expressed in inches or mm per hour.
In the United States an irrigation district is a cooperative, self-governing public corporation set up as a subdivision of the State government, with definite geographic boundaries, organized, and having taxing power to obtain and distribute water for irrigation of lands within the district; created under the authority of a State legislature with the consent of a designated fraction of the ...
The water industry usually places such restrictions on their customers during droughts or when the reservoirs supplying the water are becoming empty. Previously, contravening a temporary water restriction is a criminal offence in the United Kingdom under the Water Industry Act 1991 (though the first prosecution for "wasteful use of water" was ...
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In 2019 the Metropolitan Water District played a crucial role in the development of the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan (DCP). The Drought Contingency Plan aims to implement legislation to reduce the risk of declining levels in the Colorado River reservoirs, particularly by incentivizing agencies to store additional water in Lake Powell and Lake Mead. [7]