Sentences with phrase «irrigation water use»

For 300 million Americans, such a reduction would cut grain use by 30 million tons and irrigation water use by 30 billion tons.

This would reduce irrigation water use by roughly one third, since transplanting would coincide with the arrival of the monsoon.

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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.

Drip irrigation uses about half of the water that traditional irrigation does and can also produce larger yields.

They cut their usage by recycling waste water to fuel their boilers, checking for leaky equipment and using sensors to control irrigation on their farms.

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.

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.

Still, the National Institutes of Health says that nasal irrigation is generally safe, so it can't hurt to try it — as long as you use the right type of water.

Nasal irrigation — sometimes called sinus washing or sinus rinsing — is the process of using salt water solution to clean mucus or allergens out of the sinuses.

Our water management system in India utilizes three on - site water wells for landscape irrigation and includes our own water reclamation facility to recycle all water used at the site.

We worry that arable soil is eroding and that water for irrigation is being used unsustainably.

When water is repeatedly used for irrigation it accumulates land salts and its saline content is increased.

One who rents a field and is negligent in cultivating it, must give produce to the owner of the field on the basis of production in adjacent fields.24 Since much of the land was under irrigation, strict laws applied to the use of water.

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.

Sterman Masser uses innovative quality control technology in its production process, including the use of center pivot irrigation systems that conserve water and effectively water potatoes and corn.

We have a water well and use trickle irrigation.

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.

Over half of the facility's electricity is generated through solar power, and all winery process water is recycled for use as vineyard and landscape irrigation.

These irrigation systems use the data collected by [1] the company's GPS technology to control the water dispersal with precision so that no tree receives too much or not enough water.

Both surface and ground water are used for towns, stock, domestic use and irrigation and are equally important to the region.

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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).

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Most or all of the water used to wash and process the coffee is recycled and used for irrigation.

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.

This enabled the dairy to use manure solids to be naturally composted and used as fertilizer, and to turn manure liquids back into nutrient - rich water for irrigation of pastures.

Drip irrigation is the watering system of choice here, as it makes good use of the expensive water, it gets right into the soil, and the leaves don't get wet.

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.

The plants are watered by a drip irrigation system using rain and condensate water collected in re-purposed storage containers.

«This was a rainfed farming system with no irrigation, located in a region with abundant rainfall, and the impacts of using that water are very low.

Irrigation is the biggest use of water on the planet.

«As we all know, land is use for farming, grazing and forestry, Water is used for irrigation, livestock sustenance and fishing.

The objective of this study, supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Ogallala Aquifer Program, is to determine if the brown midrib, or BMR, trait affects water use efficiency, as well as length of maturity and level of irrigation, Xu said.

While most agreed that such water would be fine for landscaping and irrigation, 63 percent opposed using it for drinking.

Not very appealing,» says Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of food safety at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, D.C. «Treated sewage may be used in certain water systems that then are used for irrigation.

Florverde standards include minimized water use via drip irrigation and rainwater collection, boilers with air pollution filters, integrated pest control to reduce pesticide use, and environmentally sensitive waste disposal.

«Energy that would otherwise be lost during times of excess could be used to pump water for irrigation or to charge a fleet of electric vehicles, for example,» Dale said.

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.

As Trout Unlimited's Denison points out, flood irrigation is just 35 percent efficient, meaning nearly two - thirds of the water taken out of the river is lost, and never gets used by the grasses it is meant to nourish.

«If we can identify the mechanisms for water - use efficiency, we could move this trait into agronomic plants, supply non-potable water as irrigation to those plants and save the clean water for drinking.»

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.

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.

«In this high mountain desert, water is a critically precious resource and the use of metal - polluted waters for irrigation may have substantial detrimental impacts on the lives of subsistence farmers,» said Bill Strosnider, researcher on the project.

Punjab is also home to an intricate network of irrigation and water management systems designed for crop use, energy production and flood control.

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

New University of Florida research shows growers can keep using both their current sprinkler spacing and low pressure or enhanced real - time irrigation control to save water — and they can produce the same strawberry crop yield during mild freezes.

Above all else, they will have to consider whether they can any longer justify using more than two - thirds of their water for irrigation, especially when many crops are in surplus and, on many irrigation projects, around 40 per cent of the water is lost to evaporation.

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.

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 new study is one of the first to provide a global accounting of regional and local water impacts, taking into account seasonal changes and different types of intervention, including water withdrawals, reservoir regulation, land - use change, and irrigation.