Sentence examples for curtail water from inspiring English sources
To curtail water use, Best Foods has swapped its dishes for paper plates and foam cups.
At the same time, the Western drought has lowered supplies in reservoirs, while legal rulings to protect endangered species will curtail water deliveries from Northern California.
San Diego, which imports about 85percentt of its water because of a lack of aquifers, asked residents this year to curtail water use.
NEW YORK Because of an editing error, the City Room column in some editions on Aug. 10 about the retrofitting of sprinklers in city playgrounds in an effort to curtail water use misstated the amount of water the new sprinklers could save over the course of a summer.
Rights to its waters were snatched up in the wake of the gold rush and, even in a particularly savage drought (see chart), it is hard for the state to curtail water use by those who have held them for more than a century.
But to be on the safe side, the city added five of its own proposals, including a plan that would provide a water reserve in Lake Whitney to be released to the river should conditions deteriorate; a drought response that would ask customers to "conserve or curtail water use" and more extensive attention to dissolved oxygen, salinity and wildlife.
Most large hotels in Puerto Rico have big water tanks and some recycle wastewater to irrigate green areas, but many have curtailed water use, said Frank Comito, CEO of the Florida-based Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association.
Cowin and his colleagues sat before lawmakers and took turns delivering a series of sobering facts and figures about the state's persistent drought: The mountain snowpack was dismal; conservation is falling far short of Gov. Jerry Brown's 25% mandate; officials are curtailing water rights.
Governor Brown mandated that irrigation districts develop drought-management plans and directed the State Water Resource Control Board to accelerate efforts to curtail wasteful water practices in agricultural fields.
Israel has said that it will not allow Lebanon to curtail its water supply.
In the other opinion, the Commerce Department's National Marine Fisheries Service determined that continued irrigation would curtail the water flows necessary to coho salmon runs in the lower Klamath River.
