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Acequia ( pronounced ah-SEE-kwa ) is a city in Minidoka County, Idaho, United States.
Acequia is located at ( 42. 668387 ,-113. 595046 ).
Acequia is about 5 miles ( 8. 3 kilometers ) northeast of Rupert on State Highway 24.
Acequia is served by the Minidoka County Schools system.
Acequia lies about northeast of Rupert and Paul is about the same distance to the west.
However, from the 19th century to the first decades of the 20th, Iztacalco had a number of canals crisscrossing it, the main one being Canal de la Viga, earlier known as the Acequia Real.
Known among water users simply as the Acequia, various legal entities embody the community associations, or acequia associations, that govern members ' water usage, depending on local precedents and traditions.
Acequia water law also requires that all persons with irrigation rights participate in the annual maintenance of the community ditch including the annual spring time ditch cleanup known as the limpieza y saca de acequia.
* Fernald, A. G., T. T. Baker, and S. J. Guldan, Hydrological, Riparian, and Agroecosystem Functions of Traditional Acequia Irrigation Systems.
The Espada Acequia, or Piedras Creek Aqueduct, was built by Franciscan friars in 1731 in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States.
The Mission Espada Acequia ( aqueduct ) can still be seen today.
This Convention allotted to Mexico * ( 74, 000, 000 m³ ) annually of the waters of the Rio Grande to be delivered in accordance with a monthly schedule at the headgate to Mexico's Acequia Madre just above Ciudad Juárez.
Acequia is a method of collective responsibility and management for irrigation systems in desert areas.
In New Mexico, a community-run organization known as Acequia Associations supervises water in terms of diversion, distribution, utilization, and recycling, in order to reinforce agricultural traditions and preserve water as a common resource for future generations.

Culture and Water
Dennis R. Hoagland and Daniel I. Arnon wrote a classic 1938 agricultural bulletin, The Water Culture Method for Growing Plants Without Soil, debunking the exaggerated claims made about hydroponics.
While Deep Water Culture involves the plant roots hanging down into a reservoir of water below, the term Bubbleponics describes a top-fed Deep Water Culture ( DWC ) hydroponic system.
As with Deep Water Culture, there is an airstone in the reservoir that pumps air into the water via a hose from outside the reservoir.
The biggest advantages with Bubbleponics over Deep Water Culture involve increased growth during the first few weeks.
With Deep Water Culture, there is a time where the roots have not reached the water yet.
With Bubbleponics, the roots get easy access to water from the beginning and will grow to the reservoir below much more quickly than with a Deep Water Culture system.
Once the roots have reached the reservoir below, there is not a huge advantage with Bubbleponics over Deep Water Culture.
* Culture Victoria – video about the Wodonga Water Tower
* Bloom, Sheila and Jonathan, eds., Rivers of Paradise: Water in Islamic Art and Culture, Yale University Press, 2009.
She was a goodwill ambassador for the UNESCO World Water Day for 2006, supporting that year's theme of " Water and Culture " by declaring her support for Powerstock, a sustainable electronic music festival that proposes a " water-consciousness " for youth culture and seeks to make sustainability an integral part of mainstream culture.
The series titled “ Anadolu Su Medeniyeti ” ( Anatolian Water Culture ) consists of 13 episodes.
Coordinated by the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization ( UNESCO ), with the assistance of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe ( UNECE ) and the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) Water section.
2006: Water and Culture
The theme ' Water and Culture ' of 2006 drew the attention to the fact that there are as many ways of viewing, using, and celebrating water as there are cultural traditions across the world.
The PPR supplied two ministers, Harry van Doorn Minister for Culture, Recreation and Social Work, and Boy Trip, Minister without Portfolio for Science and one state secretary, Michel van Hulten, for Transport, Public Works and Water Management.

Culture and Land
Stiebing ( 1994 ) has " Land of the Lords of Brightness " ( William Stiebing, Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture ).
Consider Phlebas is Banks's first published science fiction novel set in the Culture, and takes its title from a line in T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land.
Most commonly, they are simply taken from a word used in the narrative of a book ; a few representative examples are: " grok " ( to achieve complete intuitive understanding ), from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein ; " McJob ", from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland ; " cyberspace ", from Neuromancer by William Gibson ; " nymphet " from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
* George Woodcock, " Possessing the Land: Notes on Canadian Fiction ," in The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture, ed.
Culture, Class and Invented Traditions in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land.
According to L. Muthoni Wanyeki, the author of Women and Land in Africa: Culture, Religion, and Realizing Women ’ s Rights, " Control over food crops and poultry or goats ( and benefits derived from surpluses of food crops and small farm animals ) tend to rest with women.
On June 8, 2008, The Golden Girls was awarded the Pop Culture award at the Sixth Annual TV Land Awards.
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture.
Places to see in Uozu include the Aquarium ( 水族館 ) and Mirage Land Amusement Park ( ミラージュランド ) with its large Ferris wheel, Kintarou Hot Springs ( 金太郎温泉 ), Ariso Dome Gymnasium ( ありそドーム ), Niikawa Culture Hall ( 新川文化ホール ), the Uozu Historical Folk Museum ( 魚津歴史民俗博物館 ), the historical site of the Komesoudou Rice Riots ( 米騒動 ) in 1918, Dousugi ( giant hollow sugi trees in the mountains ), Ikejiri Lake ( 池尻の池 ), the Don Waterfalls ( 平沢沌滝 ) and the remains of gold mines ( 金山 ) and castle sites ( 城跡 ) in the mountains.
In 1968 Kazimierz Jóźwiak, who was a choreographer and manager as well as director of the Kutno House of Culture founded the " Song and Dance of Kutno ` s Land Band " (" Zespół Pieśni i Tańca Ziemi Kutnowskiej ").
Numerous Polish organizations are active in former Eastern Borderlands, such as Association of Poles in Ukraine, Association of Polish Culture of the Lviv Land, Federation of Polish Organizations in Ukraine, Union of Poles in Belarus, and Association of Poles in Lithuania.
On April 19, 2011, the entire cast were reunited-a second time, to attend the TV Land Awards, where the show was nominated and won the award for Pop Culture Icon.
* Christie, John C., Jr. ( 2000 ), " The Catawba Indian Land Claim: A Giant among Indian Land Claims ," American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 24 ( 1 ): 173 – 182.
* Imre Sutton, " Cartographic Review of Indian Land Tenure and Territoriality: A Schematic Approach ", American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 26: 2 ( 2002 ): 63 – 113 ..
* David J. Wishart and Oliver Froehling, " Land Ownership, Population and Jurisdiction: the Case of the ' Devils Lake Sioux Tribe v. North Dakota Public Service Commission '," American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 20 ( 2 ): 33 – 58 ( 1996 ).
* Nick Spitzer, " Rebuilding the ' Land of Dreams :' Expressive Culture and New Orleans ' Authentic Future " Southern Spaces, 29 August 2006
During the 1990s, Feldman joined up with Jon Moss of Culture Club to form the band Promised Land, and subsequently released their self-titled debut album, Promised Land, in 1992.
Among its well-known museums are: Museum of Bread, Museum of Land Transportation, Museum of Rushnyk, ( Ukrainian Decorative Towels ), Museum of Space Exploration, Museum of Postal Services, Museum of Beekeeping, Museum of Applied and Decorative Arts, Museum of Ukrainian Traditional Rituals, Museum of Archeology, Museum of the Cossack Glory, Museum of Trypillya Culture, Museum of Ukrainian Traditional Dress, etc.
On April 17, 2010, Ladd, along with her co-angel, Jaclyn Smith, accepted the " 2010 TV Land Pop Culture Award " for Charlie's Angels.
* Culture, Land, and Legacy: Perspectives on Carl Sauer and Berkeley School Geography, edited by Kent Mathewson and Martin S. Kenzer.
Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius postulates in his book War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in World War I, that a line can be traced from Ober Ost's policies and assumptions to Nazi Germany's plans and attitudes towards Eastern Europe.
* Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius: War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in World War I-review by Matthew R. Schwonek in The Journal of Military History, Vol.

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