consumptive use

consumptive use

[kən′səm·div ′yüs]
(hydrology)
The total annual land water loss in an area, due to evaporation and plant use.
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However, landowners continued to pressurize KWS in the subsequent years, lobbying for consumptive use of wildlife and claiming that several species had increased beyond the carrying capacity of the lands.
Consumptive use of water regulation is set forth in F.S.
The study also showed that the attraction of reindeer is shaped by utilitarian as well as non-use values; that is, wild reindeer are perceived as an attractive resource both by people who emphasize harvesting and consumptive use and by those who prefer to maintain the populations primarily for non-consumptive uses.
use, to the Source Watershed less an allowance for Consumptive Use;
They authorize the Upper and Lower Basins to use specific quantities of water from the Colorado River System annually: "[T]he exclusive beneficial consumptive use of 7,500,000 acre feet of water per annum" (212) for both subbasins and, for the Lower Basin, "the right to increase its beneficial consumptive use of such waters by one million acre per annum." (213) Likewise, the entitlements are permanent in nature, "apportioned from the Colorado River System in perpetuity to the Upper Basin and the Lower Basin." (214) Article III(c) and (d) contain similarly firm quantified flow obligations.
BCM in the year 2015.The crop consumptive use is only 68 BCM and the remaining water is lost in the system.
Upon payment of statutory fees, the State Engineer's approval of a Monitoring, Management and Mitigation Plan, (3M Plan) prepared in cooperation with Eureka County, the company said the specific water right permits will be available for consumptive use.
If capillary flow of water from the shallow water table had contributed significantly to crop consumptive use, midday SWP would not have responded to the withholding of irrigation water during hull split.
14f), in which I explained why the book focused on the consumptive uses of wildlife: (a) it avoids anachronisms and speculation because the Bible speaks of these activities; and (b) if humanity's consumptive use of wildlife violates God's perfect will, as the Christian animal rights activists claim, then a whole host of human uses of animals are in danger of being immoral as well.
If made available for consumptive use, this volume could irrigate between 60 000--120 000 ha of new intensive agriculture, double to quadruple the current area.