Sentence examples for major irrigation projects from inspiring English sources

There are major irrigation projects on the river at Riverton and Bighorn.

The Prakasam Barrage on the Krishna River, completed in 1959, is one of the first major irrigation projects of the region.

The Chao Phraya system drains 61,807 square miles (160,079 square km) and is the basis of several major irrigation projects.

A major factor has been the construction of dams in the rivers flowing out of the Sierra Madre and the development of major irrigation projects and large modern cities on the coastal plain.

September 27, 1852 India July 28 , 1932Cairo, Egypt Sir William Willcocks, (born Sept. 27, 1852, India died July 28 , 1932 Cairo) British civil engineer who proposed and designed the first Aswān (Assuan) Dam and executed major irrigation projects in South Africa and Turkey.

Moreover, new project proposal as a peak load station will severely alter the operation of major irrigation projects and hundreds of lift irrigation schemes and drinking water schemes in the downstream site.

A major irrigation project (completed 1964) transformed the oasis into one of the largest agricultural areas in Saudi Arabia, producing dates, alfalfa, rice, fruits, and vegetables.

The picture shows Lauder in the Negev Desert, surrounded by a crowd of young people; he is supporting a major irrigation project intended to supply water for new residential developments.

A short distance downstream, at Dowalaiswaram, the British civil engineer Sir Arthur Joseph Cotton built a dam across the Godavari in the mid-19th century, the first major irrigation project on that river.

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.

Reclamation Reform Acts in the 1980s and 90s began to shift the costs of major U.S. irrigation projects — which move river water around the West — from federal taxpayers to western farmers, whose bill depends on an arcane mix of water rights, allocations and contracts.