Sentences with phrase «irrigation ditches»
"Irrigation ditches" refer to artificial channels or canals that are made to carry water to crops or plants in order to help them grow. Full definition
Language restricting an Obama administration clean water plan to regulate farm ponds and irrigation ditches in agricultural areas.
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In Colorado its availability is a more likely in a few months but it's the time to start keeping an eye out in small irrigation ditches along the side of rural roads, especially when water runs through them.
Once river flooding was controlled and irrigation ditches built, LESS water was spread throughout the valley than before.
Trump's victory paid off for farmers and ranchers in the form of rollbacks of environmental regulations imposed during the Obama administration that farmers and ranchers considered burdensome, including ones that could affect irrigation ditches, biotechnology and pesticides.
His grandfather cleared stones and dug the miles of irrigation ditches that bring water to the ranch with his own hands.
To ward off an outbreak, Davis says, the government would have to prevent the use of night soil as fertilizer, build cement irrigation ditches, and ensure area villagers access to clean water.
The members of the Three - Year Swim Club began their careers in rough and dangerous irrigation ditches.
The children were Japanese - American, were malnourished and barefoot and had no pool; they trained in the filthy irrigation ditches that snaked down from the mountains into the sugarcane fields.
In The Three - Year Swim Club, Julie Checkoway explores the little - known story of Soichi Sakamoto, a Maui man who taught children to swim in sugar plantation irrigation ditches and turned them into champions.
One favorite pastime of the children was swimming in the extremely hazardous irrigation ditches, in the swift currents that often carried potentially lethal objects along the stream.
You can soar through the trees attached to a zipline, or float in an inner tube down a 133 - year - old irrigation ditch, navigating tunnels and flumes along the way.
The original house was built when Rio Salado was a dirt road with dairies and farms and irrigation ditches lining the street (before 1945)!
In calmer times he performed work for Segen, building roads and irrigation ditches.
It was, he said, only a «fresh trench» or irrigation ditch — he borrowed this image from Thomas Mann, who referred to such motifs as coulisses — in the landscape of the wider Christian tradition.
Heritage Park built this structure in 1998 to illustrate the equipment and methods used for the construction of roads, irrigation ditches and railroad grades prior to the First World War.
He grabs a camera, clipboard and thick canvas insect net from the blue Volkswagen van that is his traveling home and office, and begins to hike along an irrigation ditch just east of the Rio Grande.
On a summer evening in June 2005, Susan Wallace - Babb went out into a neighbor's field near her ranch in Western Colorado to close an irrigation ditch.
And in analyses of soil and lake sediment cores, researchers have found chemical and paleoecological clues indicating that Norse farmers skillfully maintained pastures with manure fertilizer and irrigation ditches.
Provisions restricting the application of the Clean Water Act in certain agricultural areas, including farm ponds and irrigation ditches; and
As he leaps an irrigation ditch, Zorro lands his 100 - pound bulk with a graceful thud.
No flooded valley and no irrigation ditches for spawning.
After irrigation ditches and gates replaced untimely flooding (same amount of water overall being spread out, but diverted to where it was needed and controlled better), the folks that get their knickers in a twist over fish getting caught in irrigation ditches decided to fish screen them.
Flipped upside down into an irrigation ditch.