Sentences with phrase «water irrigation project»

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.

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Perhaps inevitably, dam projects have thus frequently created poverty and damaged ecologies, for example by causing displacement and by undermining useful ecological phenomena like annual flooding that spreads irrigation water and fertile soil.

President Mahama, also inaugurated an expanded water project for Bawku and other towns which are water starved and cut the sod for a three thousand hectare irrigation dam project.

The administration of H.E John Dramani Mahama has really brought us hope with the many infrastructural projects dotted across the length and breadth of the kingdom such as the various Community Day Senior High School projects at various stages of completion such the Sapeliga SHS, Binduri SHS and Garu SHS, the Tamme Irrigation Dam, the Garu District Hospital, the Bawku Town Water system, the massive rural Electrification Expansion projects etc We are also glad that the Eastern Corridor Fiber Optic Cable which extends to the Bawku was successfully laid awaiting the next phase.

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 Projwater (see Northern Cyprus Water Supply ProjWater Supply Project).

This all changed in the 1950s, when a Soviet irrigation project diverted river water to rice and cotton fields miles away.

«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.

In Morocco, we worked with an important citrus supplier on a project to convert existing sprinkler practices to drip irrigation; this resulted in a 60 % reduction in water usage.

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.

But Soviet - sponsored irrigation projects, begun in the 1950s, diverted water from two rivers that fed the sea: the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya.

Large - scale irrigation projects have dire consequences for public health, particularly through the spread of water - borne diseases.

Moreover, irrigation projects without proper provision for drainage lead to rising water tables and soil salinisation.

«We always assumed that people's increased reliance on groundwater for irrigation and consumption was resulting in a net transfer of water from the land to the ocean,» said lead author J.T. Reager of JPL, who began the research project as a UCI graduate student.

They hoped the fighting would end foreign investors» plans for irrigation projects that would suck water out of the river and destroy their livelihoods.

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

Quick note on afforestation in California: CA used the irrigation provided by its water project to sustain large groves of fruit and nut trees (whose product had large commercial value); subsequently, many of these trees were sacrificed to enhance the natural environment of the Delta Snail Darter (which has no commercial value), which has resulted in large stands of dead or moribund trees.

The proceeds help to provide clean drinking water and fund irrigation projects for crops in areas where water can be the main limiting factor for people being able to put food on the table.

analysis of small scale and intermediate technology projects such as rainwater harvesting and tanks, boreholes and pumps, fog water harvesting, smart irrigation and recycling 4.

Started in 1982 - 83, the multipurpose project was planned for irrigation, hydropower generation and water supply2harnessing the water resources of river Subarnarekha for irrigation, flood control and municipal and industrial use (Government of Bihar, 1988).

Started in 1982 - 83, the multipurpose project was planned for irrigation, hydropower generation and water supply

In the present article, I have tried to narrate my own experience working with the water resource department, Government of Odisha in implementing the resettlement and rehabilitation policy in one of the major irrigation project in Odisha.

See The Hamilton Project's interactive maps to compare county - by - county variation in total water withdrawals for irrigation, thermoelectric, and domestic withdrawals.

Projected onto folded cardboard, American artist Patty Chang's poetic and politically charged moving - image work The Wandering Lake (2009) documents Chang's search for the Wandering Lake of Xinjiang, a migrating body of water in the Chinese desert; her subsequent travel to the shrinking Aral Sea, which has lost 70 percent of its water as a result of Soviet irrigation projects; and her tracing of the course of the aqueduct that brings water from Southern China to Beijing.

«Five years in the making, Water is at once Burtynsky's most detailed and expansive project to date, with images of the 2010 Gulf oil spill, step wells in India, dam construction in China, aquaculture, farming, and pivot irrigation systems,» said Susan M. Taylor, Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art.

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.

Parties to the Basin Agreement include American Rivers and 8 other conservation organizations; four tribes (Karuk, Yurok, Klamath and Hoopa); Klamath County (OR), Siskiyou and Humboldt Counties (CA), the Klamath Water Users Association, farmers outside of the federal irrigation project, the Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman's Associations, the states of Oregon and California, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce.

«While we were there, TNC was installing their first pilot drip - irrigation project that will return conserved water back to the stream.

For instance, many countries are investing in clean water access, irrigation, and sanitation projects to support public health and economic development.

Billions that could go to desalination plants for fresh water, irrigation projects, fusion power research, food for children, medical research and exotic propulsion systems to begin exploring our solar system and beyond.

German project developer juwi has installed their first combined wind and solar plant in Egypt to be used for desalinating and pumping irrigation water for farms and it is monitored and controlled remotely from Germany.

Curtailment of state and federal water project deliveries for agricultural irrigation have already resulted multi-billion dollar losses as thousands of acres of farmland are fallowed.

Our water projects use these approaches by, for example, promoting the adoption of water - efficient irrigation technology or improving the quality of household tap water in underserved regions.

ESM 296 - 6S - SWM Seminar: Water Resources Finance [2 units] Doyle This course is intended to provide students with applications of project finance to water assets, including municipal water / wastewater systems, irrigation infrastructure, and emerging types of ecosystem related asWater Resources Finance [2 units] Doyle This course is intended to provide students with applications of project finance to water assets, including municipal water / wastewater systems, irrigation infrastructure, and emerging types of ecosystem related aswater assets, including municipal water / wastewater systems, irrigation infrastructure, and emerging types of ecosystem related aswater / wastewater systems, irrigation infrastructure, and emerging types of ecosystem related assets.

The government has allocated $ 17 million (USD) for the projects, which include boosting the amount of recycled water used for irrigation, storm water capture and reuse, revving up the capacity of water recycling plants, and improving the water pipeline infrastructure.

The country is fast losing its irrigation water and will soon be totally dependent on imports from the world market or overseas farming projects for its grain.

Quick note on afforestation in California: CA used the irrigation provided by its water project to sustain large groves of fruit and nut trees (whose product had large commercial value); subsequently, many of these trees were sacrificed to enhance the natural environment of the Delta Snail Darter (which has no commercial value), which has resulted in large stands of dead or moribund trees.

While the drip irrigation systems demonstrated in the video are impressive, it's hard to ignore the fact that the project is reliant on volunteer labor from abroad — while the volunteers describe how the local population has a hard time understanding the idea of saving and using rain water.

Banks have been supporting the project by giving credit at low interest rates to farmers who are willing to purchase water - saving irrigation equipment.

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.

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.

Project partners: RUAF Foundation (coordination, the Netherlands); Applied Plant Research International of the Wageningen University and Research Centre (The Netherlands); School of Forestry of the University of Florida (USA); The International Water Management Institute (Sri Lanka); The Ministry of Agriculture, Agrarian Development, Minor Irrigation, Industries and Environment of Western Province (Sri Lanka); Kesbewa Urban Council (Sri Lanka); The Ministry of Water, Public Services and Environment, Santa Fe Province (Argentina); Municipality of Rosario (Argentina); Institute of Physics — CONICET Rosario (Argentina); The National University of Rosario (Argentina); Comune de Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso); l'Institut d'Application et de Vulgarisation en Sciences (Burkina Faso); Kathmandu Metropolitan City Office (Nepal); Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (Nepal).

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.

68 While the fact that it is impossible for a river basin or river basin district to meet from its own water resources its needs in terms of drinking water, electricity production or irrigation may indeed be capable of justifying, in the light of Directive 2000/60, a transfer of water such as that in the project at issue in the main proceedings, it is not the case that such a transfer can be justified only by reason of such an impossibility.

122 Irrigation and the supply of drinking water meet, in principle, those conditions and are therefore capable of justifying the implementation of a project for the diversion of water in the absence of alternative solutions.

The Court then went on to state that more public interests than the impossibility of satisfying drinking water, electricity production or irrigation of the receiving river basin could be capable of justifying the project under directive 2000/60 provided that the conditions of article 4 (7) were satisfied:

They plan, design and oversee construction and maintenance of building structures and infrastructure, such as roads, railways, airports, bridges, harbours, dams, irrigation projects, power plants, and water and sewerage systems.

ACHIEVEMENTS IN LANDSCAPING • Created an entire Disney - themed park by molding shrubbery and grass, within record time for park's opening • Introduced the concept of «irrigation canal first», which saved the company $ 10,000 in annual watering projects • Led a team of 40 landscape workers to prune and trim tree within a record time of 3 days, to be prepared for an annual company event • Prepared a manual on proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots and fountains, now used as the «maintenance bible» of the company

Managed multiple large scale projects at different stages, including irrigation, pipeline, water and sewage, harbors, dams and channels.

Experienced Irrigation Engineer well - studied in the planning and design of agricultural projects aimed at the transportation and distribution of water.