If Lake Urmia is to be revived, the authorities must look urgently at the construction of dams and irrigation projects designed to boost agri-business and meet growing regional water demand.
In addition, to help repair a war-ravaged nation, the U.S. government and the governments of other wealthy nations will provide massive funding for the construction of schools, health care facilities, and irrigation projects in Afghanistan.
With U.S. assistance he then proceeded to carry out a national development program, called the White Revolution, that included construction of an expanded road, rail, and air network, a number of dam and irrigation projects, the eradication of diseases such as malaria, the encouragement and support of industrial growth, and land reform.
It has built massive dams and irrigation projects, providing enough water for a rapidly growing population.
Aid from Canada, the UK and the United Nations Development Programme is being spent on rehabilitation and irrigation projects in desert villages.
The company was born from Australia's giant Snowy Mountains hydroelectric and irrigation project in the 1950s and '60s.
The government has made the agricultural sector a priority, with programs focused on areas including the clearing of land mines, the development of family farming, development of commercial agriculture, and the construction and rehabilitation of irrigation projects.
Problems could include Turkey's construction of new irrigation projects on the Tigris and Euphrates, which would reduce the water flowing into Syria and Iraq, and ambitious projects in Ethiopia and Sudan that could divert water from the Nile and reduce the flow into Egypt.
Because they could be adjusted to generate a visible red beam instead of an infrared beam, they found immediate use projecting straight lines for alignment, surveying, construction, and irrigation.
The Baathists used the oil money to finance a nationwide development program, which included the building of dams, irrigation projects, iron and steel factories, and petrochemical plants, as well as the construction of schools and hospitals.
