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  2. Oregon Water Resources Department - Wikipedia

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    The Oregon Water Resources Department (WRD) is the chief regulatory agency of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon responsible for management of all surface and ground water in the state, which by statute belongs to the public. The department’s primary activities include protection of existing water rights, facilitation of voluntary ...

  3. Prior-appropriation water rights - Wikipedia

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    A senior water user could, for example, only have been using the water during a particular season. Then the purchaser of the water right could only use the water in the same season as when the right was established. In addition, the state may put additional conditions on the use of the water right to prevent polluting or inefficient uses of ...

  4. Central Oregon Irrigation District - Wikipedia

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    The State of Oregon authorized entrepreneurs to build and operate canal systems for profit. [citation needed] The right of agricultural users to the water were provisional until irrigation actually began producing crops as provided by the Carey Act. On June 30, 1950, the State of Oregon decreed that the Carey Act had provided ample time for ...

  5. California is finally digitizing its 100-year-old paper water ...

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    The State Water Resources Control Board aims to build a database that integrates a century of water rights records, geospatial mapping and up-to-date water diversion data that’s available to the ...

  6. Which drinking water is healthiest? The pros and cons of tap ...

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    While some bottled water is from a spring or filtration system, research shows that nearly 65% of bottled water sold in the U.S. comes from municipal tap water. But Rumpler says there can be ...

  7. Water trading - Wikipedia

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    Water rights are homogeneous and trades are in allotments of the use of 1 acre-foot (1,200 m 3) (for 1 year) of the 310,000 acre-feet (380,000,000 m 3) per year of water supplied by the CBT; and each acre-foot is a tradable allotment. [1] Water rights are thus well defined, and understood by traders. [57]

  8. Water right - Wikipedia

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    Water right in water law is the right of a user to use water from a water source, e.g., a [1] river, stream, pond or source of groundwater. In areas with plentiful water and few users, such systems are generally not complicated or contentious.

  9. What are the pros, cons of Oregon’s ballot measures in 2024?

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    During the 2024 general election, Oregonians will vote on five statewide ballot measures ranging from impeachment rights, corporate taxes, and collective bargaining in the cannabis industry.