The acequia is the oldest one of its kind in the United States that has been used continuously since it was built in the 1730s or. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
The force of the wind was terrific, and besides, I was obliged to cross the little acequia. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
They are watered by an acequia that brings water from Sun River several miles above the post. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
There had been incidents where the release of river water into acequia systems by local growers was argued. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Colonel Knight I called Hal to go with us and he ran out of the house and over the fence with long joyful bounds, to be instantly pounced upon, and rolled over into the acequia by the two big dogs of Colonel. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
Derived from the imported culture of Spanish settlers (via the Arabic Moors who brought the concept to Iberia previously) and combined with the best practices of the native peoples of the region, the acequia system is a powerful example of how we might envision people working together not only with each other but with the land itself. From Wordnik.com. [Randall Amster: Water, Water Everywhere? Sustaining Scarce Resources in the Desert] Reference
The acequia association, and three native American farm groups. From Wordnik.com. [Clovis News Journal : News] Reference
She also said that an acequia and a seed house are adjacent to the property. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Mission Espada contains the best-preserved segment of the acequia (irrigation system) that was used to bring water to the fields. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The Del Norte is dammed about a mile above the ford, and water is conveyed by an acequia madre - main canal - to irrigate the valley. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
A community-operated irrigation canal, or acequia, threads its way from the riverbanks where the crows chatter into a neighborhood of low adobe abodes. From Wordnik.com. [National Catholic Reporter] Reference
From this acequia, other smaller ones branch out in every direction, until the land is intersected in every part with dykes, and is thus rendered fertile and productive. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
The cowboys spread their beds every night under the cottonwoods beside the lower acequia, and that night we heard them in earnest discussion long after they had gone to bed. From Wordnik.com. [Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories] Reference
She had been meeting with VIPs, telling them about an ambitious 2007 Alamo master plan to expand the grounds, add new buildings and even reconstruct the acequia that provided water to the Alamo defenders in 1836. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Leaving a dozen men with buckets, readily filled from the acequia which turned the old water wheel just across the post of No. 4, and sending the big water wagon down to the stream for another liquid load, the infantry went back to their barracks and early coffee. From Wordnik.com. [An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier] Reference
The main acequia, or irrigating canal, its banks hidden in places by drooping osier-willows, conveys water from the distant river along the hill-sides, up which to the inexperienced eye it seems actually to climb to the fields; there, by means of small ditches and embankments, it is distributed over the surface, transforming the barren reddish loam or gray sand into areas of inexhaustible fertility. From Wordnik.com. [Watching the Crops] Reference
Orchards along the acequia. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
We have every intention to preserve the seed house and the acequia, ". From Wordnik.com. Reference
Rotura acequia Tribunal de las aguas. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Punjab, Maharashtra, Bengal lead in curbing birth rate] Reference
), ShareAlike licenses, ownership models for natural resources with an built-in mechanism to protect for speculation and avoid over-exploitation, stakeholder trusts on single common pool resources, the acequia water management systems in Mexico or the Johads water management systems in India or the. From Wordnik.com. [OnTheCommons.org — Everything] Reference
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