Irrigation
Farmers cannot always depend solely on rainfall to sustain their crops. In fact, many of the world's agricultural regions receive little or no precipitation. In these areas, water must be d...
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Irrigation
Irrigation is the method of supplying water to land to support plant growth. This technology has had a powerful role in the history of civilization. In arid regions sunshine is plentiful ...
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When Robin Bailey wanted to escape the Denver suburbs, she bought a 160-acre alfalfa farm in northwest Kansas and fell in love with a pair of creeks that raced through the property. Two ponds she a...
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Australia's worst drought on record got tougher Thursday when the prime minister announced there won't be enough water for irrigation along the country's largest river system unless there's signifi...
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian court has ordered
the government to halt a major irrigation project two weeks
after a Catholic bishop began a hunger strike against the plan
backed by President Lu...
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The Moorish invaders who once ruled Spain brought with them a clever irrigation system that helped turn arid land into verdant fields. A millennium later it is still largely in use, and Spain remai...
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Prime Minister John Howard warned Thursday that water
allocations for farmers in the country's main agricultural region
will be cut unless substantial rain comes in the next two months to
ea...
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A woman whose home was flooded after an irrigation canal ruptured in northern Nevada filed a negligence lawsuit Thursday against the canal's operator, local governments and homebuilders.Judy Kroshu...
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Sydney (dpa) - The worst drought on record has brought about an
"unprecedentedly dangerous situation" for farmers on Australia's
prime agricultural land, Prime Minister John...
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Though the Fort Peck Reservation fronts more than 100 miles of the Missouri River, the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes have scarcely tapped the waters for economic gain.Tribal leaders say they plan to...
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Munich (dpa) - With cherry trees and fields of rapeseed in full
bloom and the ground dry and dusty, farmers in Germany are worrying
about their crop. Midsummer has turned up...
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The growing thirst for ethanol takes a lot of water to quench, but less than many people believe and not enough to cause serious problems, experts told farmers.Last year in Nebraska, the nation's t...
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Irrigation
Irrigation
Farm irrigation blamed for water woes
