water available to TWUA. Water was first delivered to TWUA shareholders in 1910.
*235 Defendant YTID was established by the Yakima County Commissioners in 1918 and is governed by RCW 87.03. In 1945, TWUA adopted a resolution of dissolution and YTID expressly assumed all rights and obligations of TWUA. In 1947, the United States and YTID entered into an agreement transferring the maintenance and operation of the irrigation works to YTID.
Prior to 1986, YTID delivered water to individual users through a system of open ditches and water gates. Before the start of the irrigation season in late April, water gates were left unlocked allowing users to take water as needed. Once the irrigation season began, however, water gates were unlocked only if users paid their fees and users wereLAHORE/QUETTA: Following completion of the first phase of the Kachhi canal project, the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) on Thursday began filling up the 363-kilometre-long main canal with water.

Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is scheduled to inaugurate the canal in the second week of September by releasing water into its distribution systems which will irrigate nearly 72,000 acres of land in the far-flung areas of Dera Bugti district.

Wapda has started filling the canal with water from the head regulator at the Taunsa barrage to test the main canal and its various structures.

The multi-billion-rupee project was launched during the regime of retired Gen Pervez Musharraf in 2002 and was supposed to be ready by the end of 2008. However, the project missed several deadlines due to lack of