Imported Water definition

Imported Water means water introduced to the Upper Colorado River System from outside the Colorado River System for the specific purpose of augmenting the supplies available for, or storing water as part of, an Upper Basin Demand Management Program. Such Imported Water need not have been previously consumptively used in its basin of origin.
Imported Water means water obtained from a third-party source.
Imported Water means water originating outside of the Lake Hodges watershed that is transported through CWA Aqueducts but excludes any water credited by CWA as Local Water.

Examples of Imported Water in a sentence

  • The conserved or Imported Water has arrived at a CRSPA Initial Unit after accounting for any conveyance and associated losses.

  • The purpose of an Upper Basin Demand Management Program will be to temporarily reduce Consumptive Uses in the Upper Basin or augment supplies with Imported Water, if needed in times of drought, to help assure continued compliance with Article III of the Colorado River Compact without impairing the right to exercise existing Upper Basin water rights in the future.

  • Each year, using the procedures described herein, the RRCA will calculate the Annual Allocations by Designated Drainage Basin and total for each State, the Computed Beneficial Consumptive Use by Designated Drainage Basin and total for each State and the Imported Water Supply Credit that a State may use for the preceding year.

  • Imported Water Supply Credit during Water-Short Year Administration years shall be calculated consistent with Subsection V.B.2.b. of the Stipulation.

  • The RRCA Groundwater Model will be used to determine monthly Imported Water Supply Credits by State in each Sub-basin and for the Main Stem.


More Definitions of Imported Water

Imported Water means the volume of water purchased from another agency as reported by the urban retail water supplier in the annual audit as “water imported.”
Imported Water means water brought into Central Basin Area from a non-tributary
Imported Water means water of any type that is produced outside of the boundaries of the Authority and transported into the boundaries of the Authority for distribution to an end user within the boundaries of the Authority. The term “Imported Water” does not include Surface Water delivered through or by the Authority System.
Imported Water means water which has been brought into a management area from another management area by means of a pipe or other channel, and the water (including surface water) has been extracted and piped, or directed into a channel, under licence or permit under the Act, or the Groundwater (Border Agreement) Act 1985 from the originating management area or zones within the Border Designated Area. Imported water excludes water that would have, prior to diversion formed part of the water balance of the prescribed resource.
Imported Water means water which originates in a watershed other than the Lake Tahoe Basin and the Truckee River Basin.
Imported Water means water which originates in a watershed other than the Lake Tahoe Basin and the Truckee River Basin;
Imported Water means water, whether groundwater or surface water, that is produced outside of the boundaries of the Authority and transported into the boundaries of the Authority, by a Person other than the Authority, for use within the boundaries of the Authority.