It's worth noting, however, that farmers have two additional options for acquiring water.
At the time, many of us pointed out that the pricey new arsenal that the police had acquired – water cannons, sound cannons, teargas and rubber bullets – wasn't just meant for the protesters in the streets.
But Mr. Pedneau, 69, has praise for the project, even though he, like many old-timers, is generally suspicious of Los Angeles, given the tension-filled history behind its acquiring water and land here (the inspiration for the 1974 movie "Chinatown").
What's more, says Glenn McGinnis, chief executive of Arizona Clean Fuels, a preliminary inspection failed to turn up evidence of ruins near the site, which was privately owned for decades by local farmers but was later bought by the federal government to acquire water rights.
Not unlike another real-estate drama of the early 20th century, in which Los Angeles acquired water rights in the Owens Valley on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada — a scheme fictionalized in the movie "Chinatown" — big money and powerful interests had hidden their aims.
These included Ecolab, which acquired water treatment service provider Nalco Holdings for $5.4 billion, and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings, which acquired British water utility company Northumbrian Water for $3.9 billion.
WSN had also successfully implemented AMR to acquire water consumption data from the top 100 commercial and industrial customers in 2014.
Physicochemical variables of thermal paper industry effluent noted were significantly greater than the typical limit due to pollution of the acquiring water systems.
Root system architecture is an important agronomic trait by which plants both acquire water and nutrients from the soil and adapt to survive in a complex environment.
Root distribution patterns in the soil profile are the important determinant of the ability of a crop to acquire water and nutrients for growth.
