11.   In addition to providing irrigation water and power, the dams were expected to prevent flooding by trapping winter runoff in reservoirs.

12.   In the Dakotas, irrigation water is again becoming scarce and water levels keep slipping farther below boat launches.

13.   It threatens to contaminate the Columbia River, which is a fish nursery and primary source of agricultural irrigation water.

14.   Now with heavy Charley runoff, delivery of irrigation water could resume as early as next month, and the runoff could satisfy more long-term needs, Weeks said.

15.   One also provides irrigation water.

16.   Operated by the Salt River Project, the canal brings irrigation water to the Valley.

17.   Rain produces more rapid growth than irrigation water.

18.   Shortly after the turn of the century, hardy farmers on the thorny scrublands of the Rio Grande delta discovered that irrigation water could transform the arid plain.

19.   So Heckmann plans to save irrigation water, by conservation and recycling, and sell it to San Diego.

20.   Some are edible crops suitable for areas with salty soil or irrigation water and others are ground cover varieties that are useful in wetland restoration.