Sentences with phrase «of irrigation water»

In fact, it requires over 20 inches of irrigation water in many places where is grows.

The shortage of irrigation water limited that vegetable production.

I guess as long as they sell before we run out of irrigation water in 50 years.

TransCanada is proposing a new pipeline that would carry the tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to Texas — across six U.S. states, several rivers and the Ogallala Aquifer, a source of drinking water for two million people, as well as a source of irrigation water for many of the nation's farms.

Fundación Abril ($ 35,000): To restore Bolivia's polluted Rocha River, a source of irrigation water for local farms, by training local students and neighbors to manage a water treatment plant, reforest riverbanks with native vegetation, and build a composting system.

They found that domestic corn trade leads to significant losses of irrigation water resources (such as rivers, reservoirs and groundwater).

The Water chapter describes the basic hydrology of irrigation water supply, but superimposed on that are combined effects of increasing temperatures and dynamic cropping conditions.

He has also embarked upon projects funded by the European Union and the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs that include studying drought - tolerant food crops, water efficiency, and drought tolerance in the United Kingdom's wheat production and the sustainable use of irrigation water in the Mediterranean basin.

«In fact, without significant simultaneous improvements in the productivity of irrigation water, it could cause a rise in food prices and additional cropland expansion.

But the new study shows a strong correlation between elevated arsenic concentrations and high soil pH. Infiltration of irrigation water through alkaline topsoil and young alluvial sediments may thus contribute to arsenic enrichment in groundwater.

Data on the efficiency of surface of water projects — that is, dams that deliver water to farmers through a network of canals — show that crop usage of irrigation water never reaches 100 percent simply because some irrigation water evaporates, some percolates downward, and some runs off.

Data on water irrigation efficiency for surface water projects — that is, dams that deliver water to farmers through a network of canals — show that crop usage of irrigation water never reaches 100 percent simply because some irrigation water evaporates, some percolates downward, and some runs off.

The average monthly water levels show the difference in seasonal response of groundwater levels and highlight the importance of irrigation water as a source of recharge to the shallow aquifers (MBMGb undated).

This research is aimed at the development of a production function model that can be used to predict the impacts of irrigation water chloride content and salinity (EC) on avocado yields.

«We had a good season and there's been plenty of irrigation water about as well,» he told The Australian Financial Review.

Crop insurance provides growers with protection against crop production losses caused by drought, hail, excessive moisture, earthquake, fire, wildlife, failure of irrigation water supply or insects and plant disease (unless control measures have been insufficiently or improperly applied).

She peered into its depths and then, turning to one of the few foreign visitors ever invited as a houseguest at the great Argentine haras (stud farm) known as Ojo de Agua, she said slowly, «This old natural spring that produces 1,800,000 liters of irrigation water a day is the basis for the name of this perfect place.

But today households there depend on water wells for bathing and drinking, and those wells tap into a water table that is kept artificially high by the overuse of irrigation water on the ranches.

«Warm - season crops require a lot of irrigation water,» says Kaffka.

Much of the irrigation water in traditional agriculture runs off the soil or evaporates before it reaches the roots.

«higher quality diets were associated with greater food waste but less waste of cropland; as well as greater waste of irrigation water and pesticides, but not fertilizer.»

They are a kind of democratic organization in which the farmers whose fields are fed by the same water source, meet regularly to coordinate plantings, to control the distribution of irrigation water and to plan the construction and maintenance of canals and dams, as well as to organize ritual offerings and subak temple festivals.

Along the way, it would cross the Ogallala Aquifer, risking an oil spill over one of our largest sources of fresh drinking water and the source of 30 percent of the irrigation water for America's crops.

The loss of productive land to desertification, along with the depletion of aquifers and the diversion of irrigation water to cities and industry, makes it increasingly difficult to expand food production.

Nearly 40 % of the U.S. corn crop is devoted to ethanol, and this requires enormous amounts of irrigation water, fertilizers, pesticides, and gasoline or diesel fuel to grow, harvest, and ship the corn — and then to ship the ethanol.

The social, economic and environmental costs become clearest when considering the continuously shrinking number of farms in the U.S., the continuing loss of top soil and the decreasing availability of irrigation water in many areas.

But in more arid regions, such as in the southwestern United States or the Middle East, the loss of irrigation water means the end of agriculture.

In the southwestern United States, the Colorado River — the region's primary source of irrigation water — depends on snowfields in the Rockies for much of its flow.

The outlook for wool and cotton exports is also subdued, because of flock depletion and an ongoing shortage of irrigation water.

Any measures that raise crop yields on irrigated land also raise the productivity of irrigation water.

Several trends are converging to reduce the grain area, including the loss of irrigation water, desert expansion, the conversion of cropland to nonfarm uses, the shift to higher - value crops, and a decline in double - cropping due to the loss of farm labor in the more prosperous coastal provinces.

If the suspected direct link is confirmed, irrigation techniques would need to be adapted so as to counteract the evaporation and infiltration of irrigation water.

The loss of irrigation water is also reducing the harvested area, particularly of wheat, which is grown in the northern, drier regions of the country.

I am thinking the solar energy invested in evaporation (in this case, of irrigation water) is matched by the energy released during condensation; energy released to the atmosphere, raising the temperature of the air.

The total greenhouse gas emissions from making and distributing a pound of tofu is between 0.81 and 0.86 pounds, depending on a variety of factors such as the use of irrigation water, the distance of transportation and organic / non-organic.

Farmers are faced with shrinking supplies of irrigation water, a diminishing response to additional fertilizer use, rising temperatures from global warming, the loss of cropland to non-farm uses, rising fuel costs, and a dwindling backlog of yield - raising technologies.

New sources of irrigation water are even more scarce than new land to plow.

A rain barrel, which captures and stores rain water, can be used as a source of irrigation water.