Sentences with phrase «irrigation water limited»

The shortage of irrigation water limited that vegetable production.

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The drought has had a detrimental impact on the farming industry as water use limits have restricted irrigation for farming operations like Harris Ranch, Farrington says.

To comply with drought measures and water controls, the ranch had to limit its use of irrigation and allowed roughly half of its acreage to fallow.

NEW CAMPAIGN: The Goulburn Murray Irrigation District Water Leadership group has launched a new campaign, ahead of the Senate vote on the sustainable diversion limits.

SENATE VOTE: Goulburn Murray Irrigation District Water Leadership group co-chair David McKenzie has urged the Senate to support the Sustainable Diversion Limits.

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In areas where water resources are limited we see conflict between multiple needs such as drinking supplies, irrigation and even energy development.

One rule allows farmers who were supposed to stop pumping groundwater to resume pumping — almost without limits — so long as they use modern irrigation practices that use that water efficiently.

Using sewer water for irrigation is economically and ecologically of great interest in developing countries where water resources are limited.

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.

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.

For example, planting trees along river banks and installing drip irrigation is helping to reduce soil erosion, which in turn limits sedimentation and siltation in water streams in the lower parts of the basin.

His team found cultivars such as TAM 111 and TAM 112 can use soil water more efficiently, which is important for producers to better manage wheat under dryland and limited - irrigation conditions.

The proceeds help to provide clean drinking water and fund irrigation projects for crops in areas where water can be the main limiting factor for people being able to put food on the table.

People who had limited access to water could now research how to drill for fresh groundwater and build windmills from bicycle parts, to power pumps and irrigation systems.

Use of the irrigation system is limited due to the water features at the children's park.

This helps ensure that the limited irrigation water is fairly allocated and that only so many farmers tap into the limited - flowing water at the same time.

With its understated sophistication, its chic bistro and champagne bar and its green policy — including but not limited to solar water heating and grey water irrigation — lovers will agree, this hotel really is a peach.

With water becoming an increasingly precious resource, growing techniques that limit or even eliminate irrigation become ever more valuable.

Gornitz et al. (1997) do not include a term from lake volume changes, because they assume the water extracted for irrigation largely enters the ground water rather than the world ocean, so we take zero as the lower limit.

This is partly because the yield response to the additional application of fertilizer is diminishing and partly because irrigation water is limited.

Among this group that has limited outflow during at least part of the year are the Colorado, the major river in the southwestern United States; the Yellow, the largest river in northern China; the Nile, the lifeline of Egypt; the Indus, which supplies most of Pakistan's irrigation water; and the Ganges in India's densely populated Gangetic basin.

In Morocco's Oum Er Rbia River basin, a key agricultural region suffering from water shortages, the government and the World Bank are working together to «make irrigation in the basin more sustainable, more profitable, and more resilient to climate change» by limiting growers to a fixed — but reliable — amount of water consumption, subsidizing efficient irrigation equipment, and connecting farmers with domestic and international markets.

His research claims that siphoning off a third of the water from the Han River's Danjiangkou reservoir, as the plan calls for, will raise the risk of floods, increase sediment and worsen water quality — hurting navigation and irrigation for local residents, and limiting supplies for industrial and municipal use.