Sentences with phrase «irrigation water from»

The term refers to all the farmers who share irrigation water from a common source, be it a natural spring or the flow from a weir.

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One orchard relies on irrigation from an overdrawn aquifer, while the other is kept alive using expensive water piped in from the distant Sierra Nevada mountains.

«But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh - water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?»

Using a wide array of data from sensors in the soil along with satellite imagery and weather forecasts, the company designed a «personalized» irrigation system for each block of vines, greatly reducing water consumption and increasing output.

While the cost of desalinated water has steadily decreased, it still is much more expensive than water from traditional irrigation sources.

However — aside from the fact that, according to the World Health Organization, 80 per cent of all disease in the world is related to water supplies and that some diseases are significantly increased by irrigation — the technology of irrigation is itself a tricky business.

On the other hand, almost all smallholder cocoa is grown without irrigation in high - rainfall areas, so the water used in production of the cocoa is close to zero (apart from a small amount of water used in processing).

«We know of too many cases were people in South Australia sold water to the government at a premium, and then they bought the water back from Murray Irrigation or the GMID.»

The 22.864 GL was sold in parcels ranging from 30 ML to 5111 ML and my decision to set a minimum parcel size of 30 ML provided an opportunity for small irrigation enterprises to access water based on their business needs and affordability,» Mr Papps said.

Through a unique process known worldwide as the BIDA ® System, our biofiltration technology is capable of producing water suitable for irrigation from waste water sources contaminated with organic solids and nutrients.

Yalumba is enforcing a change in the irrigation technology used by its growers from broadacre systems, which provide water to large swathes of land, to microsystems, which target specific areas, ensuring each drop of water counts.

The Goulburn Murray Irrigation District (GMID) Water Leadership Group has launched a campaign demanding what it says is a «fair flow» from the Murray - Darling Basin Plan.

Irrigation is from a shallow well that has a high sulfur smell to it suggesting it is filled with brackish water.

In addition, McLaren Vale built the first and largest reclaimed water network in Australia so that 100 % of all irrigation used in our region is now from a sustainable resource other than river water.

All local California locations will leverage reclaimed wood from California ports and, where possible, newly built restaurants will incorporate more sustainable landscape features such as solar panel canopies over drive - thrus and reclaimed water for irrigation.

With the annual opening of the spillways of the Bagre dam destroying lives, farmlands, livestock and property in Ghana, President Akufo - Addo and President Kabore also agreed to extend cooperation in the utilisation of the excess water from the dam for irrigation purposes in the two countries.

Turkey is building a water pipeline under the Mediterranean Sea from Anamur on its southern coast to the northern coast of Cyprus, to supply Northern Cyprus with potable and irrigation water (see Northern Cyprus Water Supply Projwater pipeline under the Mediterranean Sea from Anamur on its southern coast to the northern coast of Cyprus, to supply Northern Cyprus with potable and irrigation water (see Northern Cyprus Water Supply Projwater (see Northern Cyprus Water Supply ProjWater Supply Project).

But massive irrigation programmes begun during the Soviet era diverted water from the rivers that feed it, reducing the lake's volume to just 10 per cent of what it had been and leaving large areas dry (see map).

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

Because tomato plants are typically grown in hot, dry climates, they are watered using irrigation systems that draw from the same locations as human drinking water.

A generation of extremely efficient farmers increasingly sees irrigation as a nonviable alternative while mulling over a switch from water - intense cotton and wheat to rain - fed sorghum and grains

The lack of water for quality irrigation throughout this arid region results in farmers using contaminated waters, leading to health risks from contaminated potatoes eaten locally or shipped to outlying areas.

There are already techniques to protect the timber industry and cattle farmers in the south - east of the US from a water shortage, including drip irrigation and better early warning systems.

The director of the service, Gilbert Grivault, says experiments showed that the plants were not suffering from any disease: they were being poisoned by the irrigation water.

The law, which stems from a court settlement on water flows, salmon and endangered species, places limits on the amounts of water certain farmers can take for irrigation.

But Soviet - sponsored irrigation projects, begun in the 1950s, diverted water from two rivers that fed the sea: the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya.

From the Andes to the Himalayas, scientists are starting to question exactly how much glaciers contribute to river water used downstream for drinking and irrigation.

But massive irrigation programmes begun during the Soviet era diverted water from the rivers that feed it, reducing the lake's volume to just 10 per cent of what it was and leaving large areas dry.

Rainwater or reused water from bathing or kitchen activities — often called gray water — provides a method for replacing fresh water in toilet flushing and yard irrigation that could, the authors say, cut household water use by 50 percent or more.

The model was validated with data from Northern California's Contra Costa Water District for customers who were irrigation - only users.

Countywide irrigation water savings ranged from 4 percent to 9 percent, with per capita savings largest in medium density environments, or those with a mix of buildings and landscaping.

The contamination happens if E. coli enters water, either directly from the contaminative source, or indirectly via e.g. soil irrigation with fecally contaminated water or use of organic animal - based fertilizers.

The survey revealed that inland wetlands were more important to both resident and migratory birds than had been realized, and that wetland loss from damming and the diversion of river water for irrigation was at least in part responsible for the shorebird decline in Australia.

Lead author Dr Jing Liu, from Purdue University, said: «Our findings show that pursuing sustainable irrigation — targeting future water security — can not be done in isolation.

The scientists want to initially keep the sewers operable through regular surge irrigation with recycled water from households and, in the long term, replace them with vacuum dewatering.

In a study entitled «It's Going to Take More Innovation than Technology to Increase Water Conservation Practices,» researchers from the University of Florida examined the perceptions of homeowners in Orange County, Florida who have automated irrigation systems and looked deeply into their water conservation knowledge and practWater Conservation Practices,» researchers from the University of Florida examined the perceptions of homeowners in Orange County, Florida who have automated irrigation systems and looked deeply into their water conservation knowledge and practwater conservation knowledge and practices.

To fulfill high production demands, water is drawn from underground reservoirs (aquifers) in the northern provinces and used for irrigation more rapidly than it is replenished.

Jeff Million and Thomas Yeager from the Department of Environmental Horticulture at the University of Florida say that there has been limited research to evaluate the ability of containerized plants to capture sprinkler irrigation water.

The researchers combined this information with water use across provinces — from both rainfall and irrigation sources — and determined how much water was transferred between provinces through food trade.

The researchers believe that some of the increase comes from improvements in water conservation practices, though some was simply the result of inefficient irrigation, for example, water seeping out of unlined ditches into aquifers.

California's action to cut water deliveries to zero, from 5 percent earlier in the water season, is dramatic but will not significantly worsen what already is a serious crisis for farmers, said Mike Wade, executive director of the California Farm Water Coalition, an education group that represents farmers, irrigation and water districts and associated agricultural businewater deliveries to zero, from 5 percent earlier in the water season, is dramatic but will not significantly worsen what already is a serious crisis for farmers, said Mike Wade, executive director of the California Farm Water Coalition, an education group that represents farmers, irrigation and water districts and associated agricultural businewater season, is dramatic but will not significantly worsen what already is a serious crisis for farmers, said Mike Wade, executive director of the California Farm Water Coalition, an education group that represents farmers, irrigation and water districts and associated agricultural busineWater Coalition, an education group that represents farmers, irrigation and water districts and associated agricultural businewater districts and associated agricultural businesses.

«We're already anticipating zero initial allocation from the CVP,» said Jason Peltier, deputy general manager of the Westlands Water District, which supplies irrigation water to about 600,000 acres of farmland in the San Joaquin VaWater District, which supplies irrigation water to about 600,000 acres of farmland in the San Joaquin Vawater to about 600,000 acres of farmland in the San Joaquin Valley.

That's how the European zebra mussel got into North America's Great Lakes, where billions of dollars were spent to keep it from blocking irrigation channels and water pipes.

From 1953 to 1979 irrigation had only a modest impact on the ecosystem, but from 1983 to 1994 the water usage for irrigation increased fourfFrom 1953 to 1979 irrigation had only a modest impact on the ecosystem, but from 1983 to 1994 the water usage for irrigation increased fourffrom 1983 to 1994 the water usage for irrigation increased fourfold.

The High Plains aquifer — the largest in the United States — provides drinking water and irrigation for an eight - state swath that stretches from South Dakota through Nebraska and into northern Texas.

In hopes of getting around these barriers, members from many of these groups — including federal and state fisheries and wildlife agencies, water supply managers, irrigation districts, and environmental groups — came together in 2006 and began hammering out the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP).

«We always assumed that people's increased reliance on groundwater for irrigation and consumption was resulting in a net transfer of water from the land to the ocean,» said lead author J.T. Reager of JPL, who began the research project as a UCI graduate student.

Although some of that water returns to the lake (for example, by soaking into the ground after irrigation), Wurtsbaugh says the new calculations show that the overall amount fell 39 % from 2003 to 2012.

The snow readings are important during this time of the year, as several locations depend on the meltwater from that snowpack for drinking water and irrigation through the drier and hotter summer months.

Even without figuring these surprising methane emissions, I think these fuels may possibly entail greater GHG emissions than they offset — in the manufacture of pesticides, fertilizers, farm equipment; irrigation water & energy to pump it; transporation of bauxite from S. America (harming rainforests) to make farm equipment, ag schools, secretaries, and all the paper work at each stage... the list goes on & on & on.