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Caught wet-handed, a Cape Coral resident argues against a $48.50 ticket for watering her lawn. A drought that began in 1988 forced the Gulf coast city to restrict water usage. All south Florida followed suit this past winter as water supplies reached a
| Author: |
Tarlock, A.D. |
| Date: |
2000 |
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Lexis Nexis Academic Universe |
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http://web.lexis-nexis.com
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For most of this century, however, natural resources policies and laws have promoted watershed degradation. …More generally, watershed management reflects the recognition that we can only sustain biodiversity by managing entire ecosystems. … Technology enabled us to remove the previous limitations on river and watershed development and produced the current nonintegrated watershed management characterized by: (1) the transformation of rivers from natural to artificial systems, and (2) unsustainable watershed development and land use practices. … A water right is perfected by diverting water and applying it to a beneficial use. …Prior to the 1970s, the federal government generally asserted only proprietary water rights. … The WSRA could be, but is not, a model watershed protection act. …
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