Sentence examples for extensive irrigation works from inspiring English sources

In the early 1970s the Iranian government sponsored extensive irrigation works in the Iranian portion of Sīstān.

Extensive irrigation works commenced on the Murrumbidgee River before World War I (1914 18) with the goal of encouraging settlement in new areas.

Between 1975 and 1978, hundreds of thousands of urban people were forcibly moved into rural areas to cultivate rice and to dig and maintain extensive irrigation works.

Many earthen dams of moderate height (in some cases of great length) were built by the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka after the 5th century bce to form reservoirs or tanks for extensive irrigation works.

Their harbors and shipyards showed renewed activity, and the hinterland saw extensive irrigation work for agriculture.

The land was harsh and made habitable only by extensive damming and irrigation works.

Soil erosion resulting from the vegetation degradation suffered by Spain for at least the past 3,000 years has created extensive badlands, reduced soil cover, downstream alluviation, and, more recently, silting of dams and irrigation works.

The upstream basin section has extensive irrigation developments.

Rajasthan needs extensive irrigation to be agriculturally productive.

Extensive irrigation is used in cotton farming, however.

Corn and cotton were cultivated with ever more extensive irrigation systems.