Sentences with phrase «irrigated water»

irrigation was a big part of the paper a colleague and I have pending publication called «Burning Water - The Energy Return on Water Invested» - using irrigated water numbers, the best biofuels required 10 times the water input as the most water intensive fossil fuel.

Humans have advanced as resources have become available; old human civilizations expanded on fertile alluvial plains that provided nutrients and irrigated water for their crops.

Farmers that use irrigated water for that and don't have supplies won't grow the crops, he said, and there might not be replacement supplies that are certified organic.

It provides 30 percent of the irrigated water for the nation's agriculture and is pivotal in food production.

However, cotton, like almonds, is highly reliant on irrigated water, making the sector vulnerable to drought and rising water prices as well as political stoushes, as is occurring currently in the Federal parliament over the next stage of the Murray Darling Basin irrigation plan.

The irrigated water is contained around each tree, and irrigation takes less than an hour, instead of 10 to 12 hours.

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.

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.

Aqua Ferre joined forces with Harvey Water in developing an industry - led solution to the water quality problems in the Wellington Dam and the Myalup Irrigated Agricultural PrecWater in developing an industry - led solution to the water quality problems in the Wellington Dam and the Myalup Irrigated Agricultural Precwater quality problems in the Wellington Dam and the Myalup Irrigated Agricultural Precinct.

At the same time, conditions for livestock and irrigated - crop farmers are expected to remain difficult, with shortages of stored water persisting in many areas.

The prospects for irrigated crop production and livestock industries are more subdued, with stored water levels still low in some states.

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.

What the people needed most was water for themselves, their grasslands and their crops, and canals and reservoirs were developed with much engineering skill to drain off the flood waters and irrigate the land.

The water in the wadi was then used to irrigate the rainless, arid area around the wadi making cultivation possible.

His act is an outrage against «mama - allpa (Mother Earth)[who] bestows water freely, the same for everyone» (Agua, p. 27) Representing nature in general, water is benign but stern: the same stream that irrigates may also flood; bathing may end in drowning.

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

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

These aquifers are used to irrigate farms, bring water to villages and feed springs, some of which are important to tourism.

For example, the company reuses 100 percent of the water used during its cherry processing to irrigate its walnut orchard.

These drainage ditches hold all the water necessary for irrigating and flooding the bogs during the fall harvest.

Cocoa needs a lot of water to survive, so large irrigated plantations have a high water footprint.

The treated water is used for irrigating crop on about 1,200 acres surrounding the plant.

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

These innovations enable us to irrigate and fertilize precisely when and where the trees need it to optimize production and use less water and fertilizer per unit.

Environmental water is a highly practical way of protecting and restoring valuable environmental assets that exist in a highly productive irrigated agriculture and urban and rural communities.

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.

A number of studies of trickle - irrigated chile peppers in New Mexico indicated that it is the amount of water applied that increases yield — not the method of applying the water.

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

There are three main sources of water in McLaren Vale which are important to irrigated grape production.

The laundry facilities also filter soapy water for rinsing reuse in a dedicated water treatment plant, and the residual water treatment facility processes all of the resort's H2O so that it can be used to irrigate the exterior gardens, mangroves and jungle.

«So the rain water that hits the site, will be stored in a 680,000 - gallon cistern, and we'll use that water for make - up water for our cooling tank and to irrigate the landscaping.»

Home remedies such as irrigating the nose with saline, and using a humidifier or sitting over a steaming bowl of water, will help to loosen the passages and clear the mucus.

However, Arlington Heights was told that Rolling Green still will use well water to irrigate the course, Ford said.

He previously taught and conducted research on water conservation in irrigated urban landscapes and the water use behaviors of woody and herbaceous plants.

Using less water to irrigate crops could restore the entire Aral Sea, says Micklin.

New Delhi's endemic shortfalls occur largely because water managers decided some years back to divert large amounts from upstream rivers and reservoirs to irrigate crops.

The second objective was to use the evaluated modules to assess the long - term effects of growing winter wheat as a cover crop on water balances and seed cotton yield under irrigated and dryland conditions, Ale said.

The two DSSAT crop modules were evaluated using measured data on soil water and crop yield from four treatments: irrigated cotton without a cover crop, irrigated cotton with winter wheat as a cover crop, dryland cotton without a cover crop, and dryland cotton with a winter wheat cover crop at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Station at Chillicothe from 2011 to 2015.

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.

«If you are able to irrigate your crops with less water over time,» Ketterhagen said, holding his arms out and letting the silky plumes brush his palms, «I think you could create a more drought - resistant hay crop.»

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

That means turning down the spigot for farmers who irrigate crops with water from Upper Klamath Lake.

A University of Oklahoma Civil Engineering and Environmental Science Professor Robert Nairn and his co-authors have conducted a collaborative study that suggests exposure to trace metals from potatoes grown in soil irrigated with waters from the Potosi mining region in Bolivia, home to the world's largest silver deposit, may put residents at risk of non-cancer health illnesses.

«Recent drought in California gave rise to changes in pricing schemes used to regulate water use in irrigated agriculture and residential sectors.

SOME of the rivers in Brittany are so polluted with herbicides that glasshouse crops irrigated with river water are being poisoned.

Yet, many people can reduce the amount of water they use to irrigate without sacrificing a nice lawn, she said.

Nearly all water needed to supply cities, farms, and industry accumulates as snow in nearby or distant mountain ranges melts and runs down into rivers used to irrigate crops, sustains fish and wildlife, and quenches...

Warmer temperatures also would transform the environment of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta, a system that provides water for 25 million people and irrigates $ 36 billion in annual crops.