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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 ...
A method used to clean water distribution lines by passing a large amount of water through the system.
Industry:Engineering
Pertaining to or extending along the long axis, or length, of a structure. Lengthwise. See transverse.
Industry:Engineering
The level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health.
Industry:Engineering
To penetrate and pass through, as water penetrates and passes through soil and other porous materials.
Industry:Engineering
Predominantly agricultural, prairie, forest, range, or undeveloped land where the population is small.
Industry:Engineering
A method of compacting soil where the soil is washed into placed with a high velocity stream of water.
Industry:Engineering
Maximum rate of increase in numbers of individuals of a species or population under optimum conditions.
Industry:Engineering
Water for motels, hotels, restaurants, office buildings, other commercial facilities, and institutions.
Industry:Engineering
Water that flows over the ground surface or through the ground directly into streams, rivers, or lakes.
Industry:Engineering
Unscheduled shut down of a generating unit or other facility for emergency or other unforeseen reasons.
Industry:Engineering