Sentence examples for construction of irrigation from inspiring English sources

He, the Viceroy, knew better, that the toiling ryot was more interested in concrete improvements in daily life — the construction of irrigation canals, the establishment of credit "societies" to get the moneylenders off his back — and these he provided.

The Tennsift's river valley, the Haouz lowland, has been transformed from an arid wasteland into a fertile farming region by the construction of irrigation and hydroelectric dams along the river's course.

Despite this, the construction of irrigation pools and reservoirs to retain the water necessary for intensive cultivation may also provide new habitats for macroinvertebrates.

Earlier be were more likely to provide personal services or specialize in religious functions, but as the power of the Yamato court spread throughout the archipelago in the 5th century, newer be came to be involved with the production of weapons, armour, and mirrors or with the construction of irrigation systems.

Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 13, p. 357. the repair and construction of irrigation works.

Farmers could not leave the land, especially after the development of irrigation agriculture the construction of irrigation infrastructure further tied farmers to their land.

The first federally funded irrigation project in the U.S. was the construction of an irrigation canal on the Colorado River Indian Reservation in 1867.

To achieve such goal, the construction of an irrigation canal was planned to irrigate few hundred hectares in the province of Ayabaca, on the border between Peru and Ecuador.

Irrigation has fallen into disfavour owing to the depletion of the great rivers, and the construction of new irrigation systems has been prohibited or curtailed.

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.

There are two "external" factors that stimulated major changes, on the one hand, the construction of the irrigation district in the CMG, which promoted the loss of large areas of tropical dry forests and hydrophilic and halophilic vegetation.