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Irrigation in sentence

163 examples of Irrigation in a sentence

So this life price is for an irrigation non-profit director.
We've literally consumed an entire river in North America for irrigation.
We need to invest in real solutions: incentives for farmers, precision agriculture, new crop varieties, drip irrigation, gray water recycling, better tillage practices, smarter diets.
CA: So that would produce irrigation for the entire village?
This is a company that's brought drip irrigation technology to thousands and millions of farmers, reducing substantially the use of water.
You're going to be able to power stuff, so irrigation makes a difference.
Once planted, we use grass or rice straw to cover the soil so that all the water which goes into irrigation doesn't get evaporated back into the atmosphere.
Human waste, in its rawest form, finds its way back to drinking water, bathing water, washing water, irrigation water, whatever water you see.
It was only with the advent of techniques like irrigation and soil tilling about 5,000 years ago that people could rely on a steady and long-term supply of food, making permanent settlements possible.
We can have California-friendly landscaping with soil moisture detectors and smart irrigation controllers and have beautiful green landscapes in our cities.
But then he mentioned a particular project, a particular traditional irrigation method that was hugely successful in the same Niger Republic where the World Bank project was failing.
Tassa is a traditional irrigation method where 20- to 30-centimeter-wide and 20- to 30-centimeter-deep holes are dug across a field to be cultivated.
Farmers are already finding ingenious ways to reduce their impact, like using special irrigation techniques to grow “more crop per drop”, and breeding new crops that are less thirsty.
No one knows how historically accurate that particular story is, but remarkably, it draws on fact: For centuries, in the Karakoram and Himalayan mountain ranges, people have been growing glaciers and using these homemade bodies of ice as sources of drinking water and irrigation for their crops.
In early spring, these frozen pools begin to melt, supplying villagers with irrigation for their fields.
An irrigation system feeds nutrient-rich water to trays of bricks that have been inoculated with bacteria.
We have much cleverer irrigation.
Enheduanna’s Ur was a city of 34,000 people with narrow streets, multi-storied brick homes, granaries, and irrigation.
And there is an automatic irrigation system that makes sure that this sort of landscape of gardens, in one or two years it will sort of transform into a Cambodian temple ruin, completely covered in green.
Pump water meant irrigation, a defense against hunger, which we were experiencing by that time.
Another machine pumps water for irrigation.
I want to share one story about an innovation called drip irrigation.
At the same time Amitabha was obsessed with this drip irrigation technology that had been invented in Israel.
The drip irrigation system had to be small enough that a farmer only had to risk a quarter acre, even if he had two, because it was too frightening, given all that he had at stake.
Secondarily, we wanted to see if we could export this drip irrigation and bring it into other countries.
But drip irrigation isn't the only innovation.
On one of my last visits to Pakistan, I asked Dr. Sono if he would take me to see some of the drip irrigation in the Thar Desert.
And we all noticed immediately that this project had no economic benefits: It had no clients, nobody would buy the electricity there, nobody was interested in irrigation projects.
What he did was see what was happening in Israel, larger approaches, and figure out how to do a drip irrigation, which is a way of bringing water directly to the plant stock.
Turns out that it's a failed irrigation project.
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