Futile Call

A futile call occurs when a downstream senior water right cannot be satisfied, even after upstream junior water rights are curtailed. This can occur when a water source completely dries up or when transit losses, the amount of water lost through evaporation and seepage as it passes along a water way, completely consume the amount of the junior right.

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