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Nov. 29—Bakersfield's two largest water providers will soon implement new restrictions to head off the potentially dire impacts of an extended drought. On Dec. 14, the city of Bakersfield and ...
Some regions of Texas have already run out of water — and the rest face a looming crisis, the state’s agriculture commissioner said on Sunday. “We lose about a farm a week in Texas, but it ...
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The Bakersfield Department of Water Resources is a municipal utility in Bakersfield, California. Primarily it manages the city's water rights to the Kern River . Water is sent to water retailers that the city has contracts with, and recharge basins to seep into the groundwater table.
In Texas, there are 98 of these districts, covering nearly 70% of the state, according to the Texas Water Development Board. The Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District has the following ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Texas. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
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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