Sentence examples for water levies from inspiring English sources

But if you ask her about the need for earthquake-proof water levies or the intricacies of budget rules, you will be greeted with a torrent of figures.

Adopting an economic approach under which water levies are used to cap total water abstractions leads to a large reduction in the burden of adaptation and generates savings of $6 12 billion per year under different climate scenarios.

Through training on resource mobilisation, the communities learnt of other sources of funding like the CDF, ALRMP II, and internal funding through annual registration fees and money from water levy.

The Senate has passed a bill dedicating 80 percent of any future Clean Water Act penalties levied against BP to restoration of the gulf.

It requires 80% of any Clean Water Act fines levied for the Deepwater Horizon spill to go to states along the Gulf of Mexico for economic and ecological restoration projects.

The RESTORE the Gulf Act of 2011 (S. 1400) also calls for funneling up to 80% of any Clean Water Act fines levied for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill into environmental and economic restoration along the Gulf Coast.

In each former kingdom, which had become an administrative district, a Balinese official (sedahan agung) was appointed who supervised a number of lower officials (sedahan) who on their turn both supervised the distribution of irrigation water and the levying of new colonial taxes.

They stay close to water, so canals and levies are a good bet.

The situation may be best encapsulated by the response to new fees levied on water in the past year.

Moreover, says Mr Wright, companies are still developing new small oil fields in Norwegian waters, even though Norway levies higher taxes than Britain.It may be that sorting out these conflicting claims is causing the Treasury's delay.

Among the possible additional tax measures discussed in its report, the O.E.C.D. suggested imposing a value-added tax on more items, as well as introducing other indirect taxes, like an environmental levy on water usage, which should also be part of an improvement in the management of Spain's natural resources through sounder pricing policies.