"water" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Take the subsidized water that makes California's vegetables competitive with imports.
- The seemingly endless battle in Congress over subsidized water for farms is flaring again on several fronts.
- "Why should we subsidize a pump that will sell subsidized water to grow a subsidized crop?"
- The original reclamation law was designed to provide subsidized water only to small farmers.
- The 1982 law was intended to end this practice of creating "paper farms" to acquire subsidized water.
- In either case, there could be no subsidized water on leased land beyond the statutory limits under the new regulations.
- Most of the farms now receiving subsidized water are small and would not be particularly affected by the new rules.
- But about 400 large corporate and family farms, most of them in California, would be seriously affected by restrictions on subsidized water.
- The bill, which has passed the House, would also prevent farmers from receiving both price support subsidies and subsidized water, a practice commonly called "double-dipping."
- The 1982 law placed a maximum of 960 acres on the size of a farm whose owner could receive subsidized water.
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