Sentence examples for farming irrigation from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sweeney, who is also a union officer with the New Jersey Ironworkers, said the dredging might bring some construction jobs to the area, but the potential damage to drinking water supplies, the fish population and farming irrigation far outweighed the benefits for the people of South Jersey.

The Murray River and Darling River (known as the Murray Darling Basin, or MDB), which supply more than two-thirds of Australia's farming irrigation, are flowing at their lowest levels in a century.The rivers run through three states whose separate laws on how much water farmers can extract from them have hampered conservation efforts.

The objective of this work was to assess seasonal on-farm irrigation performance in the Ebro basin of Spain (0.8 million ha of irrigated land).

It supplies almost three-quarters of Australia's farm irrigation water.

Farm irrigation accounts for 80 percent of the water use nationwide, according to the Agriculture Department.

Laurel had let him swim, although even then there were reports of fish dying, poisoned by the polluted runoff from farm irrigation that fed the sea.

This has also been ceded to the Nationals, something that will alarm conservationists given the central policy tension in the portfolio is between the water available for the environment and that available for farm irrigation.

The Gerd would allow Sudan to siphon off more downstream water for farm irrigation, potentially allowing the republic to take more water from the Nile than allowed by an agreement signed with Egypt in 1959.

The problem is in large part caused by farm irrigation, which picks up the salt that naturally occurs in the rocks and soils of the Central Valley and transfers it through drainage.

In Tianjin, deemed a model city for water conservation, 90 percent of water used in industry is recycled; 60 percent of farm irrigation systems use water-saving technologies; 148 miles of water-recycling pipes snake beneath the city.

In denying a request for an injunction to restore farm irrigation, Judge Ann L. Aiken of Federal District Court in Eugene said the Klamath Water Users Association and others were unlikely to prevail in their lawsuit against the federal Bureau of Reclamation, which controls the major irrigation project in the Klamath Basin.