The word "irrigate" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe the act of supplying land with water, either naturally or artificially. For example, "The farmers irrigated the fields with water from the irrigation system."
Steep slopes require careful terracing and irrigation, with water drained from the upper levels used to irrigate the lower ones.
Marginalised communities with limited access to water for even basic needs have no capacity to irrigate in a dry year.
It covers an area of just over 2m square km and contains an estimated 150,000 cubic km of groundwater.Much of Libya's water supply used to come from expensive desalination plants on the coast, which left little water to irrigate land vital in this largely desert country.
Wyoming law forbids taking, say, the Number Two water right off a stream to irrigate lands designated to receive water right Number Seven.This rule leads to fancy footwork, not to mention midnight irrigation.
FARMERS in India have become used to subsidised electricity, especially for pumping water to irrigate crops.
Four years ago Mr Baalman and other local farmers realised that unless they started saving water there might not be enough left for their children and grandchildren to irrigate the soil.
A bigger one comes from the relentless demand by farmers for water from the Murray and its main tributary, the Darling River, to irrigate their crops.
But both also filled reservoirs for the many Chilean farmers who artificially irrigate their land and had suffered three years of low rainfall.
Thus, between 1992 and 2004 India built 200 large and medium-sized irrigation projects—and the area irrigated by such schemes shrank by 3.2m hectares.The village of Veeralapalam offers a snapshot of this, and of the losers in a political economy where water is the main currency.
The first green revolution had most impact on irrigated land and, thanks to it, the 80m hectares which are irrigated (an area equivalent to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia put together) now have yields of five to six tonnes a hectare; they produce three-quarters of the world's rice.
In Belgium, a country now irrigated by a constant stream of footballing prodigies, it is virtually accepted that he will one day inspire his country: he may play in a different position to Vincent Kompany but he radiates the same maturity and authority that the Manchester City and Belgium captain showed for Anderlecht at a similar age.
