Sentence examples for Concrete irrigation from inspiring English sources
Concrete irrigation ditches damaged.
He walked lightly down a concrete irrigation ditch, past wooden shacks built on stilts above pens of pigs and chickens, before stopping at a small tongue of land.
The hills in this area are given over to sheep and goats, while the valley below is the scene of intensive mechanised agriculture, crisscrossed by massive concrete irrigation canals.
In late 2011, however, researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland discovered guppies swimming in a concrete irrigation reservoir on the island of Santa Antão.
My friend Will Standfer-NorrIs and I had arrived in early 2012, after paddling 1,700 miles from the source of the Green River in Wyoming only to lose the remnants of the river in the vast complex of concrete irrigation canals that begins at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Cox parked next to a concrete-lined irrigation ditch, reached into the back seat, and grabbed a handful of papers from a pile the size of a dictionary.
"We did a project in Ecuador where we made a concrete canal and irrigation system with self-healing concrete," Jonkers said.
They also note that an estimated 40percentt of the diverted waters are lost to seepage from dirt canals and evaporation, losses that can be curbed only with large investments in concrete and modern irrigation methods.
Excluding the tons of earth that blanket the tilted concrete shelf and the irrigation system buried in it, nearly every particle of the monument has an Irish origin and a historical logic.
At the Hanover expo, MVRDV stole the show with another vertical confection — this time a six-story tower of stacked and sustainable artificial Dutch landscapes that included an oak forest, a meadow of potted flowers, ersatz concrete sand dunes for purifying irrigation water and a "polder landscape" of dyke-protected turf powered by wind turbines spinning away on the roof.
Support from donors steadily trickled in, enabling the widening and concreting of Barangay Tina's irrigation canals, increasing farm output and enabling village women to engage in various income-generating activities.
