Sentences with phrase «much of the irrigation water»

Much of the irrigation water in traditional agriculture runs off the soil or evaporates before it reaches the roots.

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While the cost of desalinated water has steadily decreased, it still is much more expensive than water from traditional irrigation sources.

One who rents a field and is negligent in cultivating it, must give produce to the owner of the field on the basis of production in adjacent fields.24 Since much of the land was under irrigation, strict laws applied to the use of water.

Rural phone companies and electric utilities, rural financial institutions, rural farm product marketing companies, companies that provide irrigation water, and lots of the companies that sell goods to farmers, for example, are all organized as cooperatives of either consumers or producers and run on a much more democratic basis than investor owned companies.

Drip irrigation for vegetable crops, in which small amounts of water are emitted right at a plant's roots, is estimated to be as much as 95 percent efficient.

For irrigation, shares were apportioned according to crude 19th - century notions of how much water was needed to get 40 acres of dry soil to produce a crop.

Much of the island lies barren for want of irrigation, and waste is encouraged by low water charges.

Now a new study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that cool roofs can also save water by reducing how much is needed for urban irrigation.

It is possible to save a tremendous amount of water with drip irrigation: putting water through perforated hoses that are aimed at the crops, and the hoses drip little drops of water at pretty much the same time the crop needs it.

They do less well than traditional varieties in drought conditions, but much better (providing double the yield per unit amount of water) when both are grown under irrigation.

Like much of the West, the vast majority of the water here is used for irrigation, sustaining the hay and alfalfa needed to see Wyoming's cattle herds through harsh winters.

Consumption of environmental services, such as water (crop irrigation alone counts for 70 % of the world's freshwater withdrawals), should be taxed, say the researchers, and any subsidies should be paid on the proviso that they are as much for protecting the land as for farming it.

Without water suitable for drinking and irrigation, the amount of energy on hand doesn't really matter that much.

The same guy that recently defended fracking in central Texas by pointing out how much water is wasted on residential lawn irrigation is today in Colorado outspending opponents of several local fracking initiatives by a 50 - 1 margin.

Theoretically the Murray Darling should be in a much better position to deal with prolonged drought, given the water infrastructure built over the 20th century and recent water reform mandating the buy back of many irrigation licenses.

In the southwestern United States, the Colorado River — the region's primary source of irrigation water — depends on snowfields in the Rockies for much of its flow.

Plus, by holding SO much water, hugelkultur could be part of a system for growing garden crops in the desert with no irrigation.

While carbon fertilization does reduce the loss in yields, the effect is much smaller than that of irrigation, suggesting that water stress at higher temperatures may be largely responsible for losses.

Mountain glaciers, which are shrinking worldwide as a result of rising temperatures, supply drinking and irrigation water to much of the world's population, including hundreds of millions in Asia.

If this type of technology could be used at all of the world's farms, we could see a much lighter use of water for irrigation.

But according to the World Wildlife Fund, improvements to irrigation practices in just one Turkish agricultural region could remove much of that uncertainty, saving enough water annually to meet Istanbul's needs for up to three years.This month, a joint project by WWF and Turkish cookie and cracker manufacturer ETİ Burçak will begin training farmers in Konya, a fertile region of central Anatolia known as «Turkey's breadbasket,» to use modern drip - irrigation methods that reduce water consumption by one third to one half.

Irrigation drains away much of the fresh water available but it is needed for 40 % of the crops for mankind.

By 2010, he hopes to raise that number to 500,000, which would then represent the vast majority of Spain's irrigation farmers.Fenacore is also encouraging farmers to lay down telecommunications cables alongside the new water conduits to allow regional and national officials to effectively monitor all aspects of the irrigation grid - where the water is going, how much is getting there and at what pressure it is.

If the giant body of water nearly vanished with no human pressures, what could be the consequences with both man - made climate change and water diversions for irrigation that keep much of the resource from even reaching the Dead Sea?

Researchers at Kansas State University found that 65 - 83 percent of homeowners surveyed in three Kansas cities didn't know how much water their lawn irrigation systems had applied.