The science, art and business of cultivating soil, producing crops, raising livestock and making products available to meet the world's food, and much of its clothing, shelter and other needs. Distance above sea level. The system of water law primarily used in the western United States under which 1. The person or persons who have taken water for beneficial use. An underground deposit of sand, gravel, or rock through which water can pass or is stored.
Aquifers supply the water for wells and springs.
A well in which water under natural pressure rises to the surface without being pumped. A court-approved plan that allows a water user to divert water out of priority so long as adequate replacement is made to the affected stream preventing injury to the water rights of senior users. Beneficial use is the use of a reasonable amount of water necessary to accomplish the purpose of the appropriation, without waste. Some common types of beneficial use are domestic, household use, irrigation, municipal, wildlife, recreation and mining. The request by an appropriator for water which the person is entitled to under his decree, such a call will force those users with junior decrees to cease or diminish their diversions and pass the requested amount of water to the downstream senior making the call.