Sentences with phrase «reducing irrigation water»

This would reduce irrigation water use by roughly one third, since transplanting would coincide with the arrival of the monsoon.

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

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MillerCoors» water - saving effort — focused in Texas, California and Colorado — involves using sensors to release just enough water for irrigation, planting native grass to reduce erosion and runoff and keeping a close eye on leaky machinery in its breweries.

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.

I vividly recall visiting a village where a well had just been installed, providing for the first time a pure water supply, which it was hoped would reduce illness and infection and provide some water for 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.

As part of Nestlé Waters» ongoing efforts to improve the water efficiency of their operations, the company has implemented a number of conservation techniques and initiatives in their factories over the years, including reverse osmosis to better filter and reuse wastewater, advanced water mapping to more carefully manage the flow of water in and out of the plants, and xeriscaping to reduce supplemental irrigation on the grounds of each factory.

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

But massive irrigation programmes begun during the Soviet era diverted water from the rivers that feed it, reducing the lake's volume to just 10 per cent of what it had been and leaving large areas dry (see map).

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.

Florverde standards include minimized water use via drip irrigation and rainwater collection, boilers with air pollution filters, integrated pest control to reduce pesticide use, and environmentally sensitive waste disposal.

A city's water availability, through rainfall or irrigation, dictates its evaporative cooling effects on temperature, which reduces the severity of a heat wave.

The government also earmarked more than $ 10 billion for water improvement measures, including more efficient farm irrigation methods and new pipelines that significantly reduce losses due to leaks.

The team found that river flows and waterbird numbers were closely linked, indicating reduced water flow due to dam construction and water diversion for irrigation was the primary reason for the long - term declines in waterbirds in the Murray - Darling Basin.

But massive irrigation programmes begun during the Soviet era diverted water from the rivers that feed it, reducing the lake's volume to just 10 per cent of what it was and leaving large areas dry.

The study also confirmed a finding that has been emerging: that water conservation measures that directly reduce irrigation, such as drought - tolerant landscaping, can have the unintended consequence of increasing temperatures in urban areas.

Now a new study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that cool roofs can also save water by reducing how much is needed for urban irrigation.

In recent years, some growers already have dramatically reduced the amount of water and synthetic fertilizer they use by practicing precision farming techniques, such as drip irrigation, which reduces the overall amount of water used and therefore nitrate runoff.

Better irrigation and seed varieties can conserve water and reduce other ecological pressures.

Drip irrigation can reduce the water demand of crops.

The authors of a new study say that understanding container - grown plants» capacity to «capture» sprinkler irrigation water can give growers important tools that help them adjust irrigation rates, reduce water use, and produce healthy plants.

A web - based irrigation system developed by researchers at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences saved 21 percent in water use without reducing growth of container - grown landscape plants, a new study shows.

By reducing the animal product contribution in the diet, global green water (rainwater) consumption decreases up to 21 % while for blue water (irrigation water) the reductions would be up to 14 %.

The experimental results revealed that the effect of substrate volumetric water content threshold on dry weight, plant height, and compactness shows the potential for commercial nurseries to utilize sensor - controlled irrigation systems to control plant growth, and potentially to reduce the need for pruning.

New water management technologies can reduce the use of precious irrigation water by 10 — 30 % while reducing methane emissions by 35 — 75 %.

For example, planting trees along river banks and installing drip irrigation is helping to reduce soil erosion, which in turn limits sedimentation and siltation in water streams in the lower parts of the basin.

There are many technologies can reduce water input in irrigation schemes but many other factors come between technologies and the problems that they can solve.

Dr. Diane Boellstorff, AgriLife Extension water resource specialist, College Station, said proper fertilizer application and efficient water irrigation can protect and improve water quality in area creeks, and collecting rainwater for lawn and landscape needs reduces stormwater runoff.

Outside of looking into alternatives like AstroTurf or stonescaping, homeowners can use smart irrigation systems to reduce their water waste.

There are ways to improve your irrigation to focus the water to the plants in a way that reduces the amount of run - off and evaporation, such as drip - irrigation systems.

Switching from flood or furrow to low - pressure sprinkler systems reduces water use by an estimated 30 percent, while switching to drip irrigation typically cuts water use in half.

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.

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.

You will conserve scarce water resources and reduce carbon emissions associated with inefficient agricultural technologies the drip irrigation systems replace.

Technologies such as hydroponics or organoponics, drip irrigation, zero tillage etc. substantially reduce water needs and health risks and are very interesting for the urban environment and can indeed be found in many cities.

Since water wells have diminished, irrigation regulations put into place, and reductions in environmental drilling made, many larger companies considered reducing staff, but GSHPs provided the boost they were looking for.

Landscape irrigation that takes advantage of rainwater can reduce overall water usage by 30 % to 50 % per year.

Reduce outdoor water efficiency through drought - tolerant landscape design and improved irrigation technologies

«The losses got substantially reduced when we increased irrigation of fields in the simulation, so water stress resulting from temperature increase seems to be a bigger factor than the heat itself,» says co-author Joshua Elliott from the University of Chicago.

• Risk of loss of rural livelihoods and income due to insufficient access to drinking and irrigation water and reduced agricultural productivity, particularly for farmers and pastoralists with minimal capital in semi-arid regions.

Volumes of many of the world s large lakes have been reduced in recent decades through increased irrigation and other water use.

While carbon fertilization does reduce the loss in yields, the effect is much smaller than that of irrigation, suggesting that water stress at higher temperatures may be largely responsible for losses.

Similarly, some alternative transportation fuels, such as hydrogen and biofuels that require irrigation, can reduce dependence on petroleum, but at the expense of water resources.

Through a series of case studies, it provides an approach for investments in water, from irrigation to reducing climate - related risks in arid areas, to disaster risk management and access to clean water for nutrition and sanitation.

More importantly, holding rain water in the soil will reduce the need for irrigation.

Recent intensification of permanent agriculture has had numerous negative environmental consequences: Erosion has accelerated and stream sediment loads have increased where repetitive cultivation is performed on steep slopes without appropriate conservation methods; permanent conversion of hill slopes and road building have increased the risk of landslides; irrigation of cash crops in the dry season has desiccated streams; and use of pesticides and fertilizers to sustain commercial agriculture has reduced water quality.

Rising summer temperatures are reducing soil moisture, he pointed out, leading to increased irrigation demands that threaten to strain water resources.

But according to the World Wildlife Fund, improvements to irrigation practices in just one Turkish agricultural region could remove much of that uncertainty, saving enough water annually to meet Istanbul's needs for up to three years.This month, a joint project by WWF and Turkish cookie and cracker manufacturer ETİ Burçak will begin training farmers in Konya, a fertile region of central Anatolia known as «Turkey's breadbasket,» to use modern drip - irrigation methods that reduce water consumption by one third to one half.

As glaciers retreat, Demuth said the resilience is reduced, affecting both natural systems such as the way ecosystems function and human systems such as irrigation, hydropower and water for mining projects.

Future irrigation water cutbacks as a result of aquifer depletion will undoubtedly reduce Pakistan's grain harvest.