Sentences with phrase «irrigation runoff water»

In addition, water collection systems channel rain and irrigation runoff water back into the ground.

In addition, water collection systems channel rain and irrigation runoff water back into the ground.

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MillerCoors» water - saving effort — focused in Texas, California and Colorado — involves using sensors to release just enough water for irrigation, planting native grass to reduce erosion and runoff and keeping a close eye on leaky machinery in its breweries.

The water that lies in its bed there is but a shallow, narrow swamp of salt and pesticide - laced runoff from crop irrigation.

In recent years, some growers already have dramatically reduced the amount of water and synthetic fertilizer they use by practicing precision farming techniques, such as drip irrigation, which reduces the overall amount of water used and therefore nitrate runoff.

The scientists believe that the drains, designed to channel rain or irrigation runoff to the gutter in front of the house, may leave a perpetual supply of standing water in the buried pipe beneath the soil surface, which provide sites for mosquito development.

In some areas, boreholes that tap underground aquifers can augment water availability; in others, rivers and seasonal surface runoff can be used for irrigation.

Humans alter that hydrological cycle through water use demand - irrigation being a large use - and cause changes in water supply by affecting evaporation and runoff.

In this study, the team first set up and validated CLM4 in terms of runoff generation at the global scale; then, they calibrated the parameters associated with the irrigation module that features dynamic groundwater pumping in CLM4 at the global scale against water use data compiled by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) from census information.

Dr. Diane Boellstorff, AgriLife Extension water resource specialist, College Station, said proper fertilizer application and efficient water irrigation can protect and improve water quality in area creeks, and collecting rainwater for lawn and landscape needs reduces stormwater runoff.

I believe India, Pakistan, Kashmir, Nepal, China will feel the full effect of lost glacier melt runoff that feeds major rivers in their part of the world and provide irrigation and drinking water for tens of millions of people.

runoff water (from precipitation or irrigation) that does not evaporate or seep into the soil but flows into rivers, streams, or lakes, and may carry sediment

And without all the summer snow runoff, so goes our hydropower supply and our irrigation water.

But Homestead Economics has a neat video of their rainwater garden system, which collects stormwater runoff from a long dirt driveway, diverts it to carefully designed grow beds surrounded by a berm, and then collects any excess water in a retention pond for future irrigation.