Sentences with phrase «of irrigation schemes»
Senegal's outbreak of schistosomiasis has been blamed on several development projects in the basin of the Senegal River, including the building of two dams and the construction of irrigation schemes.
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The Brandt Commission found hope in the fact that vast irrigation schemes are being considered, especially in Africa, noting that such projects will enable the great rivers to become the means of transforming large areas of semiarid land into productive agricultural regions.
«We now have papers on the potato and stonefruit industries, water supply, settlement of rural and regional SA, the Pekina irrigation scheme and the Murray - Darling Basin,» Dr Plowman said.
Opposition parties are questioning whether Jeremy Rockliff has a conflict of interest as a minister responsible for the state's irrigation scheme and as one of its major customers.
Implementation of an agricultural programme, he added, with the help of multilateral partners, will potentially also bring about 1,732 hectares of land under irrigation through solar pumping from rivers, sinking of boreholes, rehabilitation of existing irrigation schemes, and construction of new ones.
But 30 dams on the Guadalquivir, with a total capacity of more than 4 cubic kilometres of water, plus local irrigation schemes, have caused water tables in the wetland to fall by up to 50 centimetres a year.
He also undertook larger irrigation and drainage schemes in the vicinity, a policy to which subsequent kings must have been committed by the magical powers they were supposed to exercise over the Nile flood, and by the demands of a growing population.
On this tour we visit the original irrigation scheme established by the Chaffey brothers in 1887 near the junction of two of Australia's mighty rivers — the Murray and the Darling.
The big difference with Savory's proposal & these forestation schemes is the size of the plants, forest wood can be harvested to allow sequestration to begin again and they do require serious amounts of irrigation, and investment.
There are also proposals for forestation schemes which suggest photosynthesis supported by suitable irrigation is capable of sequestering from 5 tC / ha / year to 25 tC / ha / year and inbetween, the last even with a TED conversation.
Has anyone stopped to think of the devastating conseqences for the existing wildlife of changing their habit through forestation or irrigation schemes?
«The region has the largest irrigation scheme in the world, and all those dams and channels would become obsolete in the face of the large floods an increased monsoon would bring.»
multiple participants in the irrigation sector on the development of regional irrigation schemes, including engagement with local and central government agencies
Some of them include planning, supervising and managing irrigation, flood, drainage and water control systems, building dairy effluent schemes, agricultural product processing, environmental impact assessment and interpretation of research results among many others.