- Industry: Government
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A U.S. Department of the Interior agency that oversees water resource management incuding the oversight and operation of numerous diversion, delivery, and storage projects the agency has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power ...
Ratio of volume of water that can be drained from a saturated soil or rock under the action of force of gravity to total volume of voids.
Industry:Engineering
Water rights to or ownership of a water supply which is acquired for the beneficial use of water by following a specific legal procedure.
Industry:Engineering
Food organisms, including algae, plankton, and even larval fish, dislodged and moved by river current. A small, nearly horizontal tunnel.
Industry:Engineering
The ratio of the weight of water in a soil sample to the weight of the dry soil, expressed as a percentage. See optimum moisture content.
Industry:Engineering
The ratio of the weight of water in a soil sample to the weight of the dry soil, expressed as a percentage. See optimum moisture content.
Industry:Engineering
The property of a soil or rock which allows it to be deformed beyond the point of recovery without cracking or appreciable volume change.
Industry:Engineering
The nest that a spawning female salmon digs in gravel to deposit her eggs. Depression in riverbed or lakebed dug by fish to deposit eggs.
Industry:Engineering
Tendency of systems, especially ecosystems, to persist, relatively unchanged, through time; also, persistence of a component of a system.
Industry:Engineering
A pit or pool for draining, collecting, or storing water. A chamber located at the entrance to the pump which provides water to the pump.
Industry:Engineering
Nonpoint source pollution control practices that involve plants (vegetative cover) to reduce erosion and minimize the loss of pollutants.
Industry:Engineering
