aqueduct to divert water supplies

water diversion

gullies and other drainage facilities

flood routing [ flood bypass ]

Application for Licence to Construct a Well and Divert Groundwater - Rural Manitoba

Navigable Waters Works Regulations

I. whereas the Palestinian population in the West Bank, notably in Area C and in East Jerusalem, face blatant violations of their rights, including settler violence, water diversion, severe restrictions on free movement, home demolition and forced evictions; whereas the forcible transfer of residents of an occupied territory constitutes a grave breach of international humanitarian law; whereas planning policy is used as a means to evict Palestinians and to expand settlement outposts; whereas military training exercises are also used as a means to forcibly displace hundreds of Palestinians, notably in the Jordan Valley; whereas, acco ...[+++]rding to the UN, Israeli settlers have carried out at least 120 attacks on Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank since the start of 2015; whereas, according to Israeli NGO B’Tselem, at least 13 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli security forces and three Israeli civilians were killed by Palestinians during the first half of 2015 in the occupied Palestinian territory;

Whereas the unilateral decision by the State Government of North Dakota to divert waters from Devils Lake into the Sheyenne River and eventually Lake Winnipeg contravenes the Boundary Waters Treaty between Canada and the United States of America; And whereas, such a contravention would set precedent for future negotiations under the said treaty; And whereas such negotiations should most properly be reviewed by the International Joint Commission; And whereas this review has not taken place; And whereas the Devils Lake Diversion project is scheduled to begin operations in July, 2005; And whereas the said water diversion may have serious and harm ...[+++]ful ecological and economic repercussions in Canada; Be it resolved that the Standing Committee on the Environment & Sustainable Development urgently calls upon the Government of Canada to immediately exhaust any and all diplomatic and/or legal options available to prevent any water diversion from Devils Lake, North Dakota until the project has been reviewed by the International Joint Commission.

(2) Any inspector or other officer when so authorized by the Board, may enter upon any land, works or plant constructed or installed upon any of the waters mentioned in section 3, or in or by which any such waters are used or diverted, and take all such measurements and do all such acts and things as may be necessary for the information of the Board as to the use or diversion of such waters by the person or corporation owning or controlling such land, works or plant.

(2) Any inspector or other officer when so authorized by the Board, may enter upon any land, works or plant constructed or installed upon any of the waters mentioned in section 3, or in or by which any such waters are used or diverted, and take all such measurements and do all such acts and things as may be necessary for the information of the Board as to the use or diversion of such waters by the person or corporation owning or controlling such land, works or plant.