Sentences with phrase «irrigated with»

A shift to «third - generation» biofuels — mainly algae and salt - tolerant «halophytes» irrigated with sea water — leads to 15 % biofuel penetration of the US fuel mix in 2014, with a growth trend of 4 %.

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

This plays out most dramatically in the outdoor installation in which the sun - baked gravel of the gallery courtyard is irrigated with shea butter: the terraforming of Arrakis played out in miniature here in the high desert grasslands of Far West Texas.

The swelling must be surgically opened, irrigated with sterile flush and antiseptics, then Penrose drains or closed suction drains are placed into the cavity to prevent further fluid accumulation.

For eye exposure, the eye will be irrigated with saline solution and treated with an optical antibiotic and pain / itch reliever.

The eye (s) may be irrigated with fluorescein dye in order to determine the extent of any damage to the cornea.

«Organic» cotton from Pakistan may be free of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, but it is irrigated with fresh water resources that are rapidly being depleted.

Organic crops aren't fertilized with toxic sewage sludge or coal waste, or irrigated with E. coli contaminated sewage water.

Because a large percentage of U.S. produce is irrigated with perchlorate - contaminated water, perchlorate is also prevalent in the U.S. food supply.

The thinking is that farmland there was irrigated with large pools of standing water that carried the parasite.

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

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.

The researchers built large shelters over plots and irrigated them with rainwater so they received either more or less rain than the 100 - year regional average.

«We control all our land and 90 percent is contiguous with our facility,» Michael says, noting that all of its land is irrigated with center - pivot systems.

For a better option, look to saline aquifers, which are porous geological formations containing salty water that no one would want to drink or irrigate with anyway.

The former Soviet union had a virgin lands campaign where they converted something like 46 million hectares of virgin steppe in to wheat acreage attempted to irrigate with water that would wind up in the Aral Sea.

Plant hardy desert plants, irrigate with HVAC condensate or other grey water, and you got a sustainable, roof - life extending oasis in the desert.

Carefully consider water needs and irrigation, and consider irrigating with grey water.

This farm used to irrigate with well and municipal water, but artists Marjetica PotrÄ and Marguerite Kahrl have developed a solar powered rainwater harvesting system to gather the water from the roofs of the greenhouses.

There will be systems to reuse waste heat, irrigate with captured rainwater, and compost wood waste.

Not exact matches

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 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.

He wanted to create a chiltepín plantation, where all the bushes were centrally located and irrigated, thus eliminating wasted time and money with pickers wandering for miles through rough country.

The Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC) was created in 1997 with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to provide a venue for linkages among national agricultural research and extension systems, government agencies, nongovernment organizations, academic institutions, and the private sector.

The Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia With Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP) aims to improve food security and gender equity, and alleviate poverty through optimizing productivity and sustainability of irrigated rice production systems.

The doubling of production during the last 35 years was associated with a 6.9 fold increase in nitrogen fertilization, 3.5 fold increase in phosphorus fertilization and a 1.7 fold increase in irrigated land90.

IRRI works with Indian farmers on various crop management options such as resource - conserving technologies, direct seeding, mechanization, and postharvest to streamline production practices for both rainfed and irrigated systems.

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.

Eventually, we learned how to irrigate Anya's colon, which is a process involving a rubber tube and a large syringe filled with saline.

However, «farmers will have to adequately feed the soil with enough nutrients, so that the pods are healthy, they also have to get good irrigation, and that is why our Chinese friends are here to find the best possible way of irrigating our farms.»

The result was that only the raw graywater irrigated soil showed hydrophobicity, which could be mitigated with both moderately and highly treated solutions.

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

«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.

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.

«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.»

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

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).

«This is the blessing and curse of farmers in the American Midwest,» says Bill Patzert, a climatologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «They're blessed with rich farmland and the rivers that irrigate it.

The increase in groundwater loss occurred even with a reduction in the amount of irrigated land, which decreased 7 percent from 2007 to 2009 compared to the 2012 - 2016 drought.

With 3 million hectares of good alluvial land, half of which can be irrigated easily, Mali could become a breadbasket.

Researchers writing in the latest edition of the journal Weed Science are providing new insights into the control of herbicide - resistant kochia, a weed that competes with both dryland and irrigated crops across the Great Plains states.

A pioneer of Israeli water - saving techniques for irrigated farming, he is now a leading academic in the US, with a string of UN consultancies, including advising on water for many of the Middle East's Arab governments.

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.

The test, caloric vestibular stimulation, involves irrigating the ear canal with water at varying temperatures and is commonly used in tests of the body's vestibular or balance system.

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.

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.

«Soil moisture sensors can be used along with an automated irrigation system to irrigate when substrate volumetric water content drops below a set threshold, allowing for precise irrigation control and improved water conservation compared with traditional irrigation practices,» Bayer said.