So last year, when Boda Balu's 1½ acres were not getting enough water, he went up his canal with an axe to where a richer farmer was drawing off water and smashed his pump.
In addition to spillways, openings through dams are also required for drawing off water for irrigation and water supply, for ensuring a minimum flow in the river for riparian interests downstream, for generating power, and for evacuating water and silt from the reservoir.
By pumping heavily from wells that tap the aquifer under the Pecos River, Roswell's farmers have drawn off water that might otherwise find its way to the surface and flow downstream.
Tepco must draw off that water to prevent it from overwhelming jury-rigged cooling systems that keep the reactors' melted cores from reheating and melting into the ground in a phenomenon known as the China syndrome.
The effects of weather conditions in a tropical region and supply water flowrates and hot water draw off time are also reported.
The hot sun beating down on its nearly enclosed waters evaporates them at an extraordinarily high speed, drawing off into the atmosphere more water than is added by the inflow of rivers.
As early in 1975 (Felsenthal and Gangle), the thin layers penetrated by water were called "thief zones" because they draw off large quantities of water and thereby impair the economics of the waterflood operation.
Much water is drawn off the Segura and its major tributary, the Guadalentín (Sangonera), to irrigate adjacent huertas (orchards), especially on the Murcia Plain.
According to locals, its level never falls, no matter how much water is drawn off, nor has anyone ever plumbed its depth.
Service hot water is drawn off indirectly, through an immersed serpentine heat exchanger.
