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She also thinks that though human influence might be «greater than we realize,» this regional climate change is probably caused by many factors, including increased irrigation in the region.

She also thinks that though human influence might be «greater than we realize,» this regional climate change is probably caused by many factors, including increased irrigation in the region.

Not exact matches

Using a wide array of data from sensors in the soil along with satellite imagery and weather forecasts, the company designed a «personalized» irrigation system for each block of vines, greatly reducing water consumption and increasing output.

They provide a solar - powered drip irrigation system that can increase farmers» yield with up to 300 percent in Kenya and the neighbouring countries.

«Harvey Water represents the Collie River Irrigation District farmers and has been working for many years to find a solution to the increasing salinity in the Wellington Dam.

However — aside from the fact that, according to the World Health Organization, 80 per cent of all disease in the world is related to water supplies and that some diseases are significantly increased by irrigation — the technology of irrigation is itself a tricky business.

Water management technologies including micro irrigation, off - grid desalination, sprayable polymers, hydroponics and aeroponics for increasing sustainability in production and building in environmental credentials to a business's brand.

In addition, this year, delayed monsoon rains increased farmers» demand for irrigation - related electricity while reducing the water available for hydroelectricity, which accounts for 20 percent of India's grid, according to Businessweek and Reuters.

Reports blamed the conflict for changes in land use and cover — and for activities like increased military traffic over unpaved surfaces and farmers reducing irrigation or abandoning agricultural land — that created extreme amounts of dust to fuel the storm.

In Africa, improving infrastructure, better fertilizer use, improved irrigation and other constraints can be relieved to increase yield.

However, growing biomass soon in well - selected places with increased irrigation or fertilization could support climate policies of rapid and strong emission cuts to achieve climate stabilization below 2 degrees Celsius.

Dams have also caused an increase in schistosomiasis in many countries, because snails live in the reservoirs and irrigation channels.

The study also confirmed a finding that has been emerging: that water conservation measures that directly reduce irrigation, such as drought - tolerant landscaping, can have the unintended consequence of increasing temperatures in urban areas.

Dams and irrigation projects upriver in Africa increase the population of malarial mosquitoes downriver.

In a study entitled «It's Going to Take More Innovation than Technology to Increase Water Conservation Practices,» researchers from the University of Florida examined the perceptions of homeowners in Orange County, Florida who have automated irrigation systems and looked deeply into their water conservation knowledge and practiceIn a study entitled «It's Going to Take More Innovation than Technology to Increase Water Conservation Practices,» researchers from the University of Florida examined the perceptions of homeowners in Orange County, Florida who have automated irrigation systems and looked deeply into their water conservation knowledge and practicein Orange County, Florida who have automated irrigation systems and looked deeply into their water conservation knowledge and practices.

The authors said this confirmed previous studies showing that wobbler sprinklers improve irrigation capture in certain instances but the effect is not great (less than 10 % increase) or consistent.

The researchers believe that some of the increase comes from improvements in water conservation practices, though some was simply the result of inefficient irrigation, for example, water seeping out of unlined ditches into aquifers.

Farmers here have reported environmental problems, such as floods, droughts, reductions in water quality and increases in soil erosion and downstream sedimentation of irrigation networks.

The net overall irrigation change, however, was a 27 % annual increase in the amount of irrigation from 2007 to 2014.

«We always assumed that people's increased reliance on groundwater for irrigation and consumption was resulting in a net transfer of water from the land to the ocean,» said lead author J.T. Reager of JPL, who began the research project as a UCI graduate student.

The researchers found that increased soluble solids concentration (SSC) occurred with low - frequency irrigation, while decreased SSC occurred with delayed harvest maturity in trees receiving phosphorus fertigation at bloom.

These findings can also be illustrated in other aspects of resource use: the team found the highest rate of increase in the cultivation of arable land to be in the 1950s; the peak for human - made irrigation areas then followed in the 1970s, and the peak for nitrogen fertilisers was subsequently in the 1980s.

Not only does this limit the land available for use in agriculture, but in land that has been used for generations, the combination of irrigation and evaporation gradually leads to increasing soil salinity.

PPI's technology will allow farmers in many countries to increase yields and reduce the need for irrigation, particularly in drought and heat stressed areas.

Pumping water for irrigation likely to increase drought vulnerability in certain regions, PNNL shows via modeling expertise

Human activities directly produce only a small increase in water vapor through combustion processes and irrigation.

Those who do will surely suffer, since GW is predicted to reduce world net food crop output in several ways: droughts, floods, heatwaves that kill plants; land loss from sea rise; no irrigation in glacier - fed rivers after glaciers melt in a few decades — putting 40 % of India & China at starvation risk; crop loss due to increased pests (weeds & bug); fish decline from several GW factors; there's probably more.

SW fails to mention effects that may counter-act warming trends, such as irrigation, better shielding of the thermometers, and increased aerosol loadings, in addition to forgetting the fact that forests were cut down on a large scale in both Europe and North America in the earlier centuries.

Low temperatures in Arizona have increased in urban areas, because of grass, trees, irrigation (anything which increases humidity and / or causes increased condensation,) asphalt, buildings, air conditioners, etc..

that the sharp increasing in nighttime relative to decreasing daytime tempeartures in the Valley relative to the Sierras is largely due to irrigation and increased urbanization?

This unique response of RSM to extra soil moisture provided by irrigation is consistent with Christy et al. (2006)'s observational study that found increased nighttime minimum temperature in California Central Valley during the last century.

However, growing biomass soon in well - selected places with increased irrigation or fertilization could support climate policies of rapid and strong emission cuts to achieve climate stabilization below 2 degrees Celsius.

In warm, dry regions, irrigation increases the amount of water available for plants to release into the air through a process called evapotranspiration.

Human activities directly produce only a small increase in water vapor through combustion processes and irrigation.

To Tenuc (2:12 am): I agree with your point that at the micro-climate level, there are too many things going on to draw conclusions based on only one parameter, in this case increasing irrigation.

Globally, water demand will grow in the coming decades, primarily due to population growth and increased affluence; regionally, large changes in irrigation water demand as a result of climate change are likely (high confidence)[3.5.1].

Examples include developing water saving technologies in irrigation, building reservoirs, increasing water productivity, changing cropping systems and water reuse.

Increased tapping of water resources for crop irrigation in one region in response to water shortages related to climate change can increase risks to adjacent areas that share those water resources.

Where there have been built or made irrigations of many types, the most inmediate consequence it has been an increase in humidity and even in deserts it has began raining.

So while admitting, there probably is a very modest amount of AGW in the current warming cycle, it could just as easily have been caused by: i) the effects of the huge increase in global irrigation, ii) tiny changes in the sun's radiation, and / or iii) the knock on effects of changes in the intensity and direction of ocean currents.

«The losses got substantially reduced when we increased irrigation of fields in the simulation, so water stress resulting from temperature increase seems to be a bigger factor than the heat itself,» says co-author Joshua Elliott from the University of Chicago.

Global Warming floods and droughts crops, increases insect and fungal growth, increases the spread of said non-indigenous vermin, alters the range of crops to where geology and infrastructure (such as irrigation and farms) is not favourable (north of the Southern Manitoba bread - basket is boreal forest too acidic for crops and north even further is only accessible by winter roads)...... these problems are potentially solvable, but certainly as soon as Chinese Himalayan meltwater dries up, or as soon as a Monsoon season fails because of Global Warming, the next decade of cost savings by following the Republican / Conservative geoengineering «plan»... such preventable events in the midst of an economic golden age will be looked on by future generations as evil.

In a recent article, we call this anthropogenic drought, which is water stress caused or intensified by human activities, including increased demand, outdated water management, climate change from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, growing energy and food production, intensive irrigation, diminished supplies, and land use change.

, written 2007/09/14 I noted that the cost of water in Australia varied from $ 0.0013 / kL ($ 1.30 / ML) in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area to around $ 1 / kL for a domestic consumer in South Australia (the cost to domestic consumers in SA had increased to around $ 3 / kL by 2017).

Volumes of many of the world s large lakes have been reduced in recent decades through increased irrigation and other water use.

Is this really changing the temperature of the planet — yes, but on any given day you'd be hard pressed to feel it, with possible exceptions like the enthalpy of desert regions increasing with the increase in irrigation of yards, crops, etc..

Has anyone bothered to analyse the impact the ever increasing amount of pastoral irrigation going on and how spraying vast volumes of water into the sky might just correlate with an increase in temperature?

According to that hypothesis, the anomalous increase of CO2 and CH4 concentrations in the atmosphere as observed in mid - to late Holocene ice - cores results from anthropogenic deforestation and rice irrigation, which started in the early Neolithic at 8000 and 5000 yr BP, respectively.

A World Bank report said in February 2015 that climate change is likely to increase river salinity leading to shortages of drinking water and irrigation and significant changes in aquatic ecosystems in the southwest coastal areas during the dry season by 2050.

Recent intensification of permanent agriculture has had numerous negative environmental consequences: Erosion has accelerated and stream sediment loads have increased where repetitive cultivation is performed on steep slopes without appropriate conservation methods; permanent conversion of hill slopes and road building have increased the risk of landslides; irrigation of cash crops in the dry season has desiccated streams; and use of pesticides and fertilizers to sustain commercial agriculture has reduced water quality.