Sentence examples for granting water from inspiring English sources

Congress passed the Raker Act in 1913, granting water rights to San Francisco, and the O'Shaughnessy dam was completed 10 years later.

See articleColombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos, said in a televised national address that a ruling last year by the International Court of Justice granting waters around three of the country's Caribbean islands to Nicaragua was "not applicable".

The church was granted water lots for West Street and Washington Street in 1751; Partition Street was ceded by the church to the city in 1761, as was Vesey Street.

The movement is fighting for the repeal of the water code, adopted by the 1973-90 dictatofship of Augusto Pinochet, which made water private property by granting the state the right to grant water use rights to companies free of charge and in perpetuity.

Granted, water treatment is only one of many problems we've let worsen in recent years, but it's only common sense to pay paramount attention to the stuff we and our families drink, cook with and bathe in.

The state's agricultural sector has been granted water-use rights for five times the amount of water than what's actually available, according to Obegi.

In this country, we take water for granted – the water companies just let it leak away.

The Norwegians have decided to put their granting deep water drilling concessions on hold.

The availability of portable water is often taken for granted and water allowed to get polluted.

There is the Environment Agency, which in the last seven years has reviewed some 1,500 of the licences that have been granted to water companies, farmers and others to abstract water.

For her, the root of the problem lies in the licences that were granted to water authorities decades ago at a time when water was plentiful.