Sentences with phrase «irrigated fields»

Heartworm has been diagnosed in every state in America, including desert states like Arizona, where mosquitos breed on golf courses and in irrigated fields.

[19] Water vapor concentrations fluctuate regionally, but human activity does not directly affect water vapor concentrations except at local scales, such as near irrigated fields.

There's a large dairy herd, irrigated fields, experimental agriculture, and research center.

Moist microclimates (irrigated fields, backyard ponds, man - made golf courses) perpetuate mosquito populations, and affect the severity and duration of the mosquito season.

There are different climates in Arizona, including micro-climates such as irrigated fields, backyard ponds, and man - made golf courses, which affect the severity and duration of the mosquito season.

Moist micro-climates (irrigated fields, backyard ponds, man - made golf courses) perpetuate mosquito populations, and affect the severity and duration of the mosquito season.

The well near Hamilton is downgradient from several irrigation canals and irrigated fields; the well near Florence is not located near irrigation.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it traced the responsible bacterial strain — Salmonella Saintpaul — to a Serrano pepper grown on a Mexican farm that irrigated its fields with water contaminated with it.

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.

Less rainfall to the area will mean reduced runoff into water basins that feed irrigated fields.

The spores like humidity, and struck irrigated fields in drought - stricken areas, says Mahmoud Solh, head of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Aleppo, Syria.

On either side lie lush green polygons — the irrigated fields of the Mexicali valley just south of the US border, where tomatoes, cucumbers and onions grow in what should be a desert.

Between A.D. 800 and 1500, Angkor's complex canals, roads, irrigated fields, and dense settlements sprawled across more than 1,160 square miles, almost the size of Rhode Island — and far beyond the area protected within the UNESCO World Heritage Site's zone today.

In addition the irrigated fields have severe problems of salination due to evaporation of surface waters that leave salt behind in the soil.

Because of its high amount of surface water, it was ideal for loi, irrigated fields for farming the starchy vegetable taro, a staple crop, she said.

«It takes about 10,000 gallons a week to irrigate the field at Longfellow.

An even more direct conduit into the environment may be the common practice of irrigating fields with wastewater from livestock lagoons.

The remaining effluent is aerated so it can be used to irrigate fields and flush barns again.

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

The river flow now efficiently irrigates fields along the banks of the Syr Darya and runs into and rejuvenates the dried - up Aral Sea.

The way farmers irrigate their fields can have a significant impact on human health — and water conservation

One of its aspects is soil salination, which affects in particular dry regions of Earth, where farmers are forced to irrigate their fields heavily.

In areas where Agnihotra ash water has been used to irrigate the fields, the result was the growth of larger and healthier crops.

In the river analogy, the lifestyle blog is like an irrigation canal - with regulated path and amount of water, and with the clear goal to irrigate fields.

The noria, or water wheels, of Hama have been used for 600 years to lift the water from the River Orontes up to aqueducts to irrigate these fields and provide drinking water.

See how local farmers irrigate their fields...

It has also been accused of using oil wastewater to irrigate its fields, a practice that is currently still legal in California, and which has possible health and environmental implications due to the dangerous chemicals present.

Not exact matches

Along Colorado's Front Range, fourth - generation farmer Kent Peppler said he is fallowing some of his corn fields this year because he can't afford to irrigate the land for the full growing season, in part because deep - pocketed energy companies have driven up the price of water.

He plans to sell some of the groundwater coursing beneath his fields to drillers, because it isn't enough to irrigate his lands in Glasscock County.

The local knowledge and experience of Dr Tourenq and Tim Field — Banrock Station's Wetland and Conservation Ranger — are key to helping maintain a healthy and resilient river system — one in which irrigated agriculture such as winemaking can continue to flourish while environmental assets are preserved for the benefit of all Australians.

Conduct a field experiment to determine water - use efficiency under alternate wetting and drying (AWD) and flood - irrigated conditions in farmers» field at key sites

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

Throughout the long, hot summer, Ketterhagen let water course through his fields, irrigating his pastures and vitalizing the gravelly soil beneath.

From there it would irrigate almost 200 000 hectares of tobacco, rice and vegetable fields in the east of mainland Greece.

Wherever possible, farmers built dams and canals to irrigate cropland; they also built terraced stone walls on hillsides to make new fields; and they drained the swamps outside Tenochtitlán to create raised fields (chinampas), one of the most highly productive agricultural systems of the ancient world.

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.

In the 1960s the Soviet government diverted water from two tributaries of the Aral, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, to irrigate cotton fields.

The cool morning air was pungent with the scents of the freshly irrigated alfalfa fields, the dairy cows behind our house, and Mexican sage brush.

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.

Ubud is another alternative place to enjoy holiday in Bali, offering a remote area surrounded by green tropical territory and terraced - irrigated rice field.

But perhaps this had something to do with the lake water being used as a main source to irrigate so many local rice fields.

The water is taken from the above mountain and flows downward to irrigate rice fields and also used for construction.

What could threaten world food security more than the melting of the glaciers that feed the major rivers of Asia during the dry season, the rivers that irrigate the region's rice and wheat fields?

It is the water from these rivers that irrigates the rice and wheat fields in the region.

Himalayan glaciers that feed the rivers that irrigate the rice fields of China and the wheat fields of India are fast disappearing.

The report shows that introduction of Alternative Wetting and Drying in irrigated rice fields could achieve substantial emission reductions by 2020.

In irrigated cropland, soil moisture was prescribed in three different ways: 1) field capacity, 2) half of field capacity, and 3) no addition of water.

The basin's 586 million people rely heavily on rice from fields irrigated with its water.

Crop yields from experimental field plots of irrigated rice dropped by 10 percent with a 1 - degree - Celsius rise in temperature.

Digested manure liquids, which are essentially made odorless by the process, will be irrigated on nearby fields as natural fertilizer.