Sentences with phrase «of irrigation water supply»

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.

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).

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The Coalition Government is getting on with the job of delivering our water infrastructure needs, today annowncing $ 1 million to fast - track a feasibility study into improving water quality and supply to support the expansion of the Myalup and Collie River irrigation districts.

However — aside from the fact that, according to the World Health Organization, 80 per cent of all disease in the world is related to water supplies and that some diseases are significantly increased by irrigation — the technology of irrigation is itself a tricky business.

In addition, too heavy reliance on irrigation, especially in arid and semiarid regions, threatens the supplies of underground water.

«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.

The handling of water in general, with irrigation supplies needs to be closely observed by both growers and government.»

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

Turkey is building a water pipeline under the Mediterranean Sea from Anamur on its southern coast to the northern coast of Cyprus, to supply Northern Cyprus with potable and irrigation water (see Northern Cyprus Water Supply Projwater pipeline under the Mediterranean Sea from Anamur on its southern coast to the northern coast of Cyprus, to supply Northern Cyprus with potable and irrigation water (see Northern Cyprus Water Supply Prosupply Northern Cyprus with potable and irrigation water (see Northern Cyprus Water Supply Projwater (see Northern Cyprus Water Supply ProjWater Supply ProSupply Project).

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.

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

«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.

Regarding water access, the production of agricultural commodities along the food supply chain depends on the local availability of water through precipitation or irrigation.

In California, the issue of water supply has pitted farmers against city dwellers and environmentalists, who claim that the farmers waste most of their water on low - value crops and inefficient irrigation systems.

The scientists believe that the drains, designed to channel rain or irrigation runoff to the gutter in front of the house, may leave a perpetual supply of standing water in the buried pipe beneath the soil surface, which provide sites for mosquito development.

«We're already anticipating zero initial allocation from the CVP,» said Jason Peltier, deputy general manager of the Westlands Water District, which supplies irrigation water to about 600,000 acres of farmland in the San Joaquin VaWater District, which supplies irrigation water to about 600,000 acres of farmland in the San Joaquin Vawater to about 600,000 acres of farmland in the San Joaquin Valley.

Sustainable management of water resources (including provision of safe and reliable supplies for drinking water and irrigation, adequate sanitation, protection of aquatic ecosystems, and flood protection) poses enormous challenges in many parts of the world.

Watersheds not only supply water for domestic use but also provide a multitude of ecological and cultural services, including water for irrigation and industry, shelter, habitats for biodiversity and, in very poor areas, sources of livelihoods.

The report also notes that the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta — a key source of drinking and irrigation water for millions — is vulnerable to saltwater intrusion over the next decades that could render it inaccessible for freshwater supplies.

In hopes of getting around these barriers, members from many of these groups — including federal and state fisheries and wildlife agencies, water supply managers, irrigation districts, and environmental groups — came together in 2006 and began hammering out the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP).

They anticipate the project will impact Nicaragua's lucrative ecotourism and the supply of fresh water for drinking, irrigation and power generation.

«By the end of this century, as the climate warms, the rising demand for irrigation water and increased variability of the water supply may lead to regions with a severe shortage of water for irrigation,» said corresponding author Dr. Maoyi Huang, a climate modeler at PNNL.

In one sentence: Regions that depend primarily on irrigation from surface water will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow, according to climate modeling research from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

And regions that depend primarily on surface water irrigation (rivers, lakes, reservoirs) will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow.

But the ice - cap of the Cordillera Blanca, long a supply of water for the Chavimochic irrigation project, has shrunk 40 % since 1970 and is retreating at an ever - faster rate.

An irrigation network is then threaded throughout the tubing, and LED lighting is connected to the upper section of the framework, which together supply light, water, and nutrients to the plants via an automated control system.

Meanwhile, most of our dwindling water supply goes into those irrigation pipes.

By running the irrigation lines with built - in reverse osmosis membranes underground, the proposed irrigation system would use the pressure gradient supplied by the plants» roots to desalinize the water without the high amount of energy consumption usually associated with desalination.

In practice, power plants have priority over other water withdrawals from the same source (usually a river), and when water is in short supply — e.g. in the Southeast right now — the demands of power generation are competing with municipal water supplies, irrigation, etc..

* Unless there are very substantial early, inflows there will be insufficient water available to allow any allocation at the commencement of the 2007 - 08 water year for irrigation, the environment or any purpose other than critical domestic supplies.

The mountains in the region form the headwaters of several major river systems — including the Ganges, Mekong, Yangtze, and Yellow rivers — which serve as sources of drinking water and irrigation supplies for roughly 1.5 billion people.

The Klamath River Basin Restoration Agreement includes a program to rebuild fish populations, more predictable irrigation water allocations for farmers, reliable water supplies for the basin's national wildlife refuges, and assistance for counties impacted by the removal of PacifiCorp's dams.

As an alternative to furrow irrigation, a drip system also raises yields because it provides a steady supply of water with minimal losses to evaporation.

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It would cross over a thousand bodies of water including the Missouri, Yellowstone rivers and straight through one of America's largest aquifers — the Ogallala — which supplies 30 percent of the groundwater used for irrigation in the U.S. Over 500,000 people are directly employed in the agricultural sector in the states traversed by the pipeline — a sector that generates billions of dollars.

A solar panel array will supply power to common areas of the building and a rainwater collection system will provide water for irrigation.

With 60 percent of the world's grain harvest produced on irrigated land, anything that reduces the irrigation water supply reduces the food supply.

The move, says the Associated Press, «affects drinking water supplies for 25 million people and irrigation for 1 million acres of farmland.»

Impact of Climate Change on Water Supply — Water saving irrigation in China — Upper East Region, Northern Ghana 7.

The Indus Basin Irrigation System gets its water supply from the Tarbela dam on the Indus River and the Mangla dam on the Jhelum River, both of which are located in the upper Indus basin and are fed largely by glacier meltwater.

And that's because the original route from Canada into the United States was planned through an area in Nebraska that supplies some drinking water for nearly 2 million Americans, and irrigation for a good portion of America's croplands.

Mountain glaciers, which are shrinking worldwide as a result of rising temperatures, supply drinking and irrigation water to much of the world's population, including hundreds of millions in Asia.

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.

(That system, governed since 1960 by treaty, supplies the irrigation water that produces «at least three - quarters of Pakistan's food.»)

Among this group that has limited outflow during at least part of the year are the Colorado, the major river in the southwestern United States; the Yellow, the largest river in northern China; the Nile, the lifeline of Egypt; the Indus, which supplies most of Pakistan's irrigation water; and the Ganges in India's densely populated Gangetic basin.

Most of us are directly tied into the local water supply, which is great when it works well, and horrible when it doesn't (as evidenced by the recent and ongoing travesties in communities such as Flint, Michigan), and although some homes may capture rainwater for irrigation, or have their own well, there aren't a lot of alternative choices for getting clean drinking water, other than purchasing bottled water.

Now, scientists meeting at World Water Week in Sweden are reinforcing and broadening that point, saying that without serious reforms to the way many Asian countries manage water chronic food shortages may result — even without the impact of climate change on water supplies: Food & Feed Demand to Double by 2050 In Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation, the International Water Management Institute and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization say that food and animal feed demand in Asia is expected to double by 2050 and that relying on trade to supply this will «impose a huge and politically untenable burden on the economies of many developing countries.&rWater Week in Sweden are reinforcing and broadening that point, saying that without serious reforms to the way many Asian countries manage water chronic food shortages may result — even without the impact of climate change on water supplies: Food & Feed Demand to Double by 2050 In Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation, the International Water Management Institute and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization say that food and animal feed demand in Asia is expected to double by 2050 and that relying on trade to supply this will «impose a huge and politically untenable burden on the economies of many developing countries.&rwater chronic food shortages may result — even without the impact of climate change on water supplies: Food & Feed Demand to Double by 2050 In Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation, the International Water Management Institute and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization say that food and animal feed demand in Asia is expected to double by 2050 and that relying on trade to supply this will «impose a huge and politically untenable burden on the economies of many developing countries.&rwater supplies: Food & Feed Demand to Double by 2050 In Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation, the International Water Management Institute and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization say that food and animal feed demand in Asia is expected to double by 2050 and that relying on trade to supply this will «impose a huge and politically untenable burden on the economies of many developing countries.&rWater Management Institute and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization say that food and animal feed demand in Asia is expected to double by 2050 and that relying on trade to supply this will «impose a huge and politically untenable burden on the economies of many developing countries.»

His research claims that siphoning off a third of the water from the Han River's Danjiangkou reservoir, as the plan calls for, will raise the risk of floods, increase sediment and worsen water quality — hurting navigation and irrigation for local residents, and limiting supplies for industrial and municipal use.

Further on in the judgment, the Court answered the question whether under article 6 (4) of directive 92/43 irrigation and supply of drinking water constitute imperative reasons of overriding public interest that can justify the project impact on the integrity of the sites concerned.