Sentences with phrase «irrigated by»

The 160 square foot green roof hosts native desert plants and sedums irrigated by greywater to absorb heat, dust, and CO2.

More than 620,000 - square - feet of landscaped area has been irrigated by our three storm management cisterns that harvest up to one million liters of rainwater at a time.

This region is irrigated by summer monsoon rains and rain - fed agriculture is the primary sustenance for Sahel populations.

I have many, many fruit trees on my property that are irrigated by our North Coast precipitation, not by sprinkler systems.

Then there are the fertile valleys of the villages of San Pablo de Buceite and San Mart n del Tesorillo, where orange groves and other agricultural activities, irrigated by the River Guadiaro, are important local industries in the area.

This is the area that was terraced and irrigated by the Inca to grow crops like corn, quinoa, and potatoes.

The hillsides are covered with citrus, olive, almond and fig trees, all irrigated by the water of natural springs and rivers.

The Eternal City boasts countless works of art, iconic archaeological sites, baroque churches and stunning monuments, set against a backdrop of lush green gardens, irrigated by water from the River Tiber.

These tall terraces which run up the narrow valley are irrigated by an aqueduct from Pachatusan, the mountain above the site.

In other cases the tear duct itself might be clogged and need irrigated by a vet.

Fish from contaminated water or vegetables irrigated by contaminated water are other ways the disease can spread.

Studies show that fatty tissues are not irrigated by lymphatic vessels.

According to Weber, peer - reviewed studies have also indicated that food crops can accumulate uranium when irrigated by water containing high concentrations of it.

In each greenhouse, one of the flats was surface irrigated by a simple watering can, and the other was sub-irrigated by placing it in an inch of water in a large tank until the soil had taken up enough water to dampen the surface.

It is customary to give one - tenth of the product of the land if it is watered by rain and one - twentieth if it is irrigated by human effort; two and one - half per cent of savings is suggested, with equal proportions of the increase in cattle or in trade in goods.

This village located at the valley, surround of many hill and most of the area is a rice fields that irrigate by Subak, the Balinese traditional water system for rice field.

Not exact matches

As a result, about 90 percent of the land cultivated by Jewish settlers is irrigated, as opposed to only 3 percent of the land farmed by Palestinians.

Here is a workable scenario: A corporation owned by both Israeli and Palestinian interests (probably the governments, at least initially) builds one or more very large desalination plants and the necessary pipelines, develops the land to be irrigated, manages the farms on that land, and perhaps develops communities where the farm workers can live.

Concludes Wright: «It is as though... «the word of the YHWH» is like an enormous reservoir, full of creative divine wisdom and power, into which the prophets and other writers tap by God's call and grace, so that the word may flow through them to do God's work of flooding or irrigating his people.»

According to one estimate, more than 500,000 acres are lost each year to salinity and waterlogging together, so that today the amount of land ruined by irrigation probably equals all that can be made productive if irrigated.

According to Lester Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute, Argentina alone has 4 million acres of irrigated land already damaged by salinization.

Attempts were made to boost this intensive agriculture by sinking wells to irrigate the land.

Water tables around the world are dropping dramatically — in China by meters a year — as diesel pumps relentlessly draw water to the surface to irrigate grain.

The report looked at a selection of natural resource management technologies rolled out by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) as part of the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC) mandate in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

This video provides recommendations on how to control weedy rice, from results of collaborative research studies among IRRI, the Rice Research and Development Institute in Sri Lanka, University of Ruhuna, and the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

The food plants eaten by the Native Americans are divided into two categories: those harvested in the wild and those cultivated plants that had managed to adapt to the dry desert climate or were irrigated.

After soil preparation, the site is surrounded by a berm (raised soil) that will hold water during flood irrigating or after rainfall.

«We determined we need to be irrigating at 75 percent of our past ET levels as estimated with the current model and finding hybrids that better tolerate stress,» Brauer said, adding this was from studies conducted by Xu and Marek over several years.

Without better crop varieties or other agricultural technology improvements, irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming, and south Asia as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa will face the worst effects.

As glaciers disappear in the rain shadow of the Himalayas, one man is helping farmers irrigate their fields by storing water in an innovative way

«By continually irrigating — letting the water go over a field and never stopping it — it could turn into an artificial wetland.»

She blasted farmers in neighboring states for wasting water by flood - irrigating their hayfields.

Planting and irrigating forests would cause surface air temperatures to drop by 4 ° to 8 °C (blue) compared with the rest of the tropics (yellow).

In a recent study published by Point Blue Conservation Science (Point Blue) and Audubon California in the journal Western Birds, scientists document the importance of irrigated agricultural crops in California's Central Valley to a conspicuous shorebird.

By irrigating land that would otherwise be desert, they produce half of the fruit and vegetables sold in the US.

In the future, irrigated agriculture will face increased water costs driven by competing needs of an increasing human population and probably drier conditions under a changing climate.

By recording volume variations in the blood vessels irrigating the different brain structures, it is therefore possible to determine the location of activated neurons.

The sea was sacrificed to the politics of the Soviet Union — its water taken to irrigate ever increasing areas of cotton and rice to satisfy production targets set by its successive five - year plans.

According to a new assessment from the United Nations University, sodium and magnesium salts can cut crop yields by between 15 and 70 per cent, and affect more than a fifth of the world's irrigated soils.

Water concentrated and conveyed by washes would have allowed for the diversion of surface water to irrigate large corn fields on the Chuska Slope, he said.

And the World Bank reported recently that when land in the northeastern Piaui district was redistributed to small farmers, yields increased by up to 40 per cent on naturally irrigated farms and up to 70 per cent on those that were artificially irrigated.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this week that it had traced the responsible bacterial strain, Salmonella Saintpaul, to a serrano pepper grown on a Mexican farm that irrigated its fields with water contaminated by the bug.

Corn ethanol made from irrigated crops, for example, can use more than 1,000 times more water than oil refining, according to calculations by Sandia National Laboratory.

According to a 2012 census from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the two aquifers irrigate cropland that accounts for one - sixth of the annual revenue generated by U.S. agriculture.

In fact, we have seen patients recover temporarily from neglect (by irrigating the ear with cold water) but continue to reach for the pen in the mirror.

It is supported by the fact that irrigated areas largely coincide with regions where elevated arsenic concentrations were measured by co-author Ali Shah of COMSATS (Islamabad).

By contrast, the «tuntian» irrigation systems — introduced by the Han Dynasty at the Xinjiang communities of Milan and Loulan — used longer, wider and deeper straight - line channels to irrigate much larger areas, with one irrigating more than 12,000 acreBy contrast, the «tuntian» irrigation systems — introduced by the Han Dynasty at the Xinjiang communities of Milan and Loulan — used longer, wider and deeper straight - line channels to irrigate much larger areas, with one irrigating more than 12,000 acreby the Han Dynasty at the Xinjiang communities of Milan and Loulan — used longer, wider and deeper straight - line channels to irrigate much larger areas, with one irrigating more than 12,000 acres.

The west half of the south central region is dominated by livestock and associated irrigated hay production.

Urban areas are now competing with irrigated agriculture by demanding an increasing -LSB-...]

• Aislinn Walton, West Texas A&M University, third place, Quantification of Water and Nutrient Use by Invasive Weed Species in Limited Irrigated Corn Production Systems to Optimize Water Use Efficiencies and Economic Returns.