1.   All the tourist brochures stress that these courses are sustained by the use of sea water and do not use up precious water resources.

2.   One golf course is already soaking up precious water and another is planned.

3.   Rail cars hauling this precious water will take about three months to complete the operation.

4.   Ranchers said it will use too much precious water, then pack up and leave when wells run dry.

5.   Spring-fed canyons provided precious water -- yes, even in the blast furnace that is a Coachella Valley summer.

6.   Sweetnam points out that farming operations in the Central Valley using the precious water are not always growing food.

7.   The artificial waterway would exploit a difference in elevation between the two water bodies, producing energy to power desalination plants for precious drinkable water.

8.   The golf balls are to promote a discussion on the wisdom of using up precious water for fairway irrigation.

9.   The Nasca and Ingenio rivers that cut across the narrow strip of coastal land carry precious little water from the mountains onto the pampa.

10.   They are far apart, each one commanding the precious water for hundreds of square feet.