That way, he could ensure adequate irrigation water for his crops during the dry summer months.
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In Wyoming, anyone who does not use his irrigation water for five years risks losing it.
The White Mountain Apache Tribe and Arizona Fishery Resources Office redesigned the dam to continue delivering irrigation water.
Mr McTiernan began using irrigation water from a rivulet running out of the Bighorn Mountains called Smith Creek.
Because rice is grown in heavily irrigated conditions, it is more susceptible than other staple crops to environmental pollutants in irrigation water.
Too much of this irrigation water is lost to evaporation, the water coverage is hard to control and wasted runoff can occur.
Friday and checked to see whether the lakes, against all odds, had risen high enough to allow irrigation water to be released.
But a low-head dam that delivered irrigation water also blocked fish movement.
Murrin's other bets imply that after a hiatus during the recession, a Malthusian shortage of grains, irrigation water, gold and oil will reassert itself.
It provides almost a third of all irrigation water in the United States and over 80% of the drinking water to 35 million United States citizens.
Texans in the rice business said they could probably stay afloat this year, thanks in part to crop insurance, but they worried about another year of interrupted irrigation water.
Punjab's robust canal system offers the chance to reclaim much of the power (part of which comes from diesel-fueled generators) used to draw up irrigation water beyond that available from gravitational flow.
Lakes and reservoirs provide a range of resource values, including drinking water, irrigation water, navigation, fisheries, tourism, recreation, flood and drought management, climate mediation, as well as having religious and historic values.
Experts have come up with all sorts of hypothetical ways the E. coli could have gotten into the spinach, from manure that wasn't properly composted to runoff from cattle farms to contaminated irrigation water.
They have scoured the company's processing plant as well as the farms that grow the spinach, looking at everything from irrigation water to the proximity of livestock, with no sure connections made so far.
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Most do not, and all too often the owners cross swords with the original landholder: a strange creature who counts on irrigation water, operates machinery at odd hours, and offends his neighbours with smelly cattle-holding pens.
The arborist added that sophisticated underground irrigation systems water the trees.
The objective of the training was to introduce water management techniques and tools for newly appointed staff of the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, the Jordan Water Authority and Jordan Valley Authority.
The project uses non-conventional water sources for irrigation, including desalinated water surplus and treated wastewater.
This is definitely worrisome to environmentalists, , nature lovers and the populations on either coastline, who depend on the water for irrigation of crops and drinking water.
Much of the rise in water consumption for irrigation will affect regions already suffering from water scarcity.
This type of zone irrigation means less water is wasted on plants that don't really need it.
Ltd. (GEWP), a for-profit company, has been improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of small farmers and their families by offering affordable water irrigation tools.
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On July 20th, the Tigers closed the sluice gates of a dam, depriving thousands of families, mostly from the ethnic Sinhalese majority, of irrigation and drinking water.
We help these families have permanent land for cultivation, we help them access modern technology with low-water-intake drip irrigation, we create village reservoirs for year-round water, and then we teach them to produce fruits and vegetables with a harvest every two weeks so they can sell year round.
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Farmers have plenty of water for irrigation from wells, but the expense is a killer.
The next step on the water is polishing which brings the waste water to a usable water for irrigation.
Pakistan also claims (though the evidence is shaky) that 600, 000 people will suffer by getting less water for irrigation.
Use of sewage and industrially contaminated water for irrigation has drenched Punjab's soils in heavy metals and other poisons.
"Dry farming" is labor intensive, but in the American West, plentiful, cheap water for irrigation is a distant memory.
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