Sentences with phrase «losing irrigation water»

China is losing irrigation water as its aquifers are depleted and its mountain glaciers disappear.

The country is fast losing its irrigation water and will soon be totally dependent on imports from the world market or overseas farming projects for its grain.

This comes at a time when world grain stocks are at their lowest level in 30 years and when U.S. farmers are losing irrigation water to aquifer depletion and to cities.

Farmers who lose their irrigation water have the option of returning to lower - yield dry - land farming if rainfall permits.

Saudi Arabia's wheat harvest is shrinking as it loses irrigation water to aquifer depletion.

Not exact matches

If we choose the story of death, we will lose the land — to excessive chemical fertilizer, or by pumping out the water table for irrigation, perhaps.

The main advantages of drip irrigation are that it conserves water because less is lost to evaporation, and it efficiently delivers water to individual plants.

«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.

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.

Drip irrigation — plastic tubing to water the trees» roots — would minimize the amount of water lost to evaporation and seepage into sandy soils, allowing trees to prosper in areas that are parched today.

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.

The irrigation system was so leaky that many canals lost more than 50 percent of the diverted river water en route to the fields, which cut the amount flowing into the sea.

Projected onto folded cardboard, American artist Patty Chang's poetic and politically charged moving - image work The Wandering Lake (2009) documents Chang's search for the Wandering Lake of Xinjiang, a migrating body of water in the Chinese desert; her subsequent travel to the shrinking Aral Sea, which has lost 70 percent of its water as a result of Soviet irrigation projects; and her tracing of the course of the aqueduct that brings water from Southern China to Beijing.

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.

The advantage of drip irrigation is that it applies water very slowly at a rate that the plants can use, losing little to evaporation.

The most efficient watering system is drip irrigation because no water is lost through evaporation.