People who own water rights pay hardly any tax on them.

拥有用水权的人几乎不用为此纳税。

But farmers have " water rights" that let them take water for agriculture.

但农民拥有允许他们取水用于农业的“水权”。

Other states with higher claims to water rights are not expected to see cuts.

其他对水权要求较高的州预计不会削减用水权。

Ensuring water rights for the project required unprecedented cooperation between all seven states along the river.

确保项目的水权需要沿河所有七个州之间前所未有的合作。

And local, state and federal governments could begin to reform an often hidebound water rights system.

地方、州和联邦政府可以对墨守成规的用水权进行改革。

A proposal in the state Senate would spend up to $1.5 billion for their " senior water rights."

州参议院的一项提案将花费高达 15 亿美元购买他们的“高级水权”。

For this to work, farmers would have to voluntarily sell their water rights.

要想让其起作用，农民必须自愿出售他们的水权。

Lots of farmers try to sell their water rights to Westlands Water District every year, he said.

他说，每年都有许多农民试图将他们的水权卖给韦斯特兰水区。

And you get the water rights.

并且您获得了水权。

The conspiracy in the movie Chinatown involves water management and water rights.

电影唐人街的阴谋涉及到水的管理和水权。

Maude Barlow, a water rights campaigner, explained how national and international law work with water – and which was most important.

水权运动者 Maude Barlow 解释了国家与国际法律如何规定用水，相比之下哪个更为重要。

We can appoint guardians for the water that ensure the water's rights are always protected.

我们可以指定水的监护人，确保水的权利始终受到保护。

Water rights would refer to who can use which river or which lake.

水权是指谁可以使用哪条河流或哪个湖泊。

Now we're at some of these critical elevations which we would love to ignore, just say we have senior water rights.

现在我们处在关键时期，我们很想忽视这些，并表示我们拥有优先水权。

They won back control of tribal lands and water rights. They fought for assistance for housing and education.

他们夺回了对部落土地和水权的控制权。他们为住房和教育方面的援助而战。

Chinatown is part mystery and part drama, and was inspired by disputes here in Southern California over land and water rights.

唐人街一半是神秘， 一半是戏剧，灵感来自南加州土地和水权纠纷。

The $1.5 billion proposal to buy senior water rights would involve either buying the land connected with the rights or buying just the right itself.

这项用 15 亿美元购买高级水权的提议将会涉及购买与水权相关的土地，或者只购买水权。

On a computer, Christi shows line after line of the water rights approved many years ago in the southernmost part of the Salar.

在电脑上，克里斯蒂展示了多年前在撒拉河最南端批准的水权。

In Chinatown, there is a lot of government corruption related this water management and water rights, or who should have access to water.

在唐人街，有很多政府腐败与水管理和水权有关， 或者谁应该有权使用水。

It has senior water rights according to the 100-year-old Colorado compact agreement, making it the last user required to take cuts in the event of a shortage.

根据已有一百年历史的科罗拉多州契约协议，帝王灌溉区拥有优先水权，因此在缺水情况下，帝王灌溉区是最后一个被要求削减水量的用户。