Sentence examples for water master from inspiring English sources
"There's no assurance of supply for anybody," said Mr. George, the delta water master.
He or she carries a trust responsibility to Native Americans and is the water master of the Colorado river.
Better late than never, Roxbury is coming out with a "water master plan" in a couple of weeks, Mayor Rilee said.
This would be voluntary, and he said he would create a position of water master in the Planning Department to coordinate a public awareness effort and other measures to protect the quality of drinking water.
"There's going to be a great deal of peer pressure to do the right thing," said Michael George, the delta water master, who is responsible for administering water rights in the region and helped put together the deal.
In any system of management, someone needs to be the boss – in New Mexican acequias, it is a mayordomo; in federal law, it is a water master, often a judge or lawyer immersed in the legal lore.
Federal water masters are given the authority to allocate water in dry years and to settle disputes quickly because crops die quickly.
So do the water masters of Tarrant County, Tex., 200 miles to the south, who are looking to supply new subdivisions around Fort Worth and are suing for access.
The success of water banking in some urban or suburban areas is typically the result of earlier water conflicts that led to courts deciding percentages of water rights for various parties and appointing "water masters" to oversee allocations and resolve future disputes.
In the main part of the exhibition, some 200 paintings, sculptures and works of decorative art have been organized both chronologically and around themes, some obvious ("Sky and Water," "Masters of Landscape," "The Delft Light"), others more quirky ("Whims and Drolleries," "Extravagantly Decked Out," "Deceptively Realistic").
It has been hypothesized that silicofluoride compounds might enhance lead leaching from drinking water conduits and increase lead absorption from drinking water (Masters and Coplan 1999; Masters et al. 2000).
