Sentences with phrase «of irrigation water for»

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.

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.

Food production and regional processing will not be curtailed by removal of irrigation water for the environment under the Murray Darling Basin Plan or removal of agricultural land for conservation under the National Reserve Program.

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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.

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Along with her husband, Grey has been deeply involved in a water irrigation project in this region and has gained firsthand knowledge of these women's daily struggles for survival.

- cutting subsidies for social services such as education and health, transportation and even water and irrigation reduction of rights of workers, easier termination of services, with harmful impact on gender, race and ethnic relations

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.

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.

Improving water infiltration and retention capacity through high levels of organic matter and permanent soil cover, such as cover crops or mulch, which substantially reduce the amount of water needed for irrigation.

The 22.864 GL was sold in parcels ranging from 30 ML to 5111 ML and my decision to set a minimum parcel size of 30 ML provided an opportunity for small irrigation enterprises to access water based on their business needs and affordability,» Mr Papps said.

Through a unique process known worldwide as the BIDA ® System, our biofiltration technology is capable of producing water suitable for irrigation from waste water sources contaminated with organic solids and nutrients.

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

Rice is a thirsty crop, accounting for 30 - 40 % of the world's irrigation water; 3,000 - 5,000 litres of water are needed to produce 1 kg of polished rice.

He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Middle Road Mutual Water Company and the Farmer's Irrigation Company.

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.

We encourage the adoption of drip irrigation, for example, in tomato growing because it delivers the precise amount of water the crop needs, when it needs it, where it needs it, thus minimizing irrigation waste.

Singleton quotes Dr. Joseph V. Enzie, a colleague of Garcia's, who recalled, «Then, to pay it off, he planted watermelons without water for irrigation.

Due to the resulting high moisture retention capacity the amount of water needed for irrigation can be reduced substantially.

«With this new system we'll treat some 15 million gallons of water a year, with significant efficiency gains — and bring things full - circle with enhanced compost for our soils and clean water for vineyard and landscape irrigation.

«How can we connect the canals better to the canal towns, and what kind of programming should we have so that we attract more tourists and recreation, better quality of life, access to the waterfront, economic development... «it's about tourism, it's about recreation, it's about irrigation for our farmers, it's about water usage for some of the manufacturing and process plants that we have along the canal system,» Quiniones told WXXI News.

With the annual opening of the spillways of the Bagre dam destroying lives, farmlands, livestock and property in Ghana, President Akufo - Addo and President Kabore also agreed to extend cooperation in the utilisation of the excess water from the dam for irrigation purposes in the two countries.

Rural phone companies and electric utilities, rural financial institutions, rural farm product marketing companies, companies that provide irrigation water, and lots of the companies that sell goods to farmers, for example, are all organized as cooperatives of either consumers or producers and run on a much more democratic basis than investor owned companies.

The main water - supply for irrigation in Pakistan and some of the Western states in India is the Indus river.

Dodd's work has applications in saving water for irrigation managers and could lead to a reduction in the water requirements of crops such as wheat and potatoes.

To Prof. Lowell it is an irrigation system whose aim is the tapping of the snow caps for the water there released, and then its distribution over the Martian disk.

With a lot of the products in our wifi irrigation controller review, you can divide it up into smaller sections and have a different watering schedule for each one.

The primary aim of the study was to determine how rising carbon dioxide levels will affect Asia's «water towers» — the glaciers whose meltwater supplies drinking and irrigation water for 1.4 billion people.

India's Ministry of Water Resources has long suggested that tapping the aquifer for irrigation was exceeding the limited regional rainfall that replenishes its water, and the World Bank has warned that the country faces a water crWater Resources has long suggested that tapping the aquifer for irrigation was exceeding the limited regional rainfall that replenishes its water, and the World Bank has warned that the country faces a water crwater, and the World Bank has warned that the country faces a water crwater crisis.

In addition, this year, delayed monsoon rains increased farmers» demand for irrigation - related electricity while reducing the water available for hydroelectricity, which accounts for 20 percent of India's grid, according to Businessweek and Reuters.

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.

«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.

It supplies 1.3 billion people with water for irrigation and drinking, and offers the promise of unparalleled hydropower.

When analyzing water, for instance, according to Conservation International, researchers studied the value of the crops dependent on water for irrigation, as well as the value of the energy water generates through hydroelectric dams, among other factors.

«Everybody has a water supply, and we were living within ours,» said Tina Shields, interim water department manager for the Imperial Irrigation District in California, one of the largest rights holders to Colorado River water and a frequent target of Mulroy's criticism.

Drip irrigation for vegetable crops, in which small amounts of water are emitted right at a plant's roots, is estimated to be as much as 95 percent efficient.

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.

For irrigation, shares were apportioned according to crude 19th - century notions of how much water was needed to get 40 acres of dry soil to produce a crop.

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.

«Not just for drinking water, but manufacturing, for energy production, for irrigation of our crops.

The High Plains Aquifer has been over-pumped for its valuable irrigation water, and researchers estimate that unless pumping is curtailed, the aquifer will no longer support irrigation wells in portions of southwestern Kansas within 25 years, Ternes said.

«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.

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 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.

La Frenierre first came to Ecuador as part of Engineers Without Borders to help build a water system, and soon started to ask what changes in the mountain's glacier coverage would mean for the irrigation and drinking needs of the 200,000 people living downstream.

Much of the island lies barren for want of irrigation, and waste is encouraged by low water charges.

«In the Southwest, water availability for irrigation is already a concern,» says first author Elodie Blanc, a research scientist at MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

«Most modeling studies that look at the impact of climate change on crop yield and the fate of agriculture don't take into account whether the water available for irrigation will change,» Monier says.