Irrigation equipment testing Desertification and water management Water harvesting technologies Climate monitoring (Risk management) Strategies drought mitigation Refining analytical systems Strategies rehabilitation of degraded lands Efficient irrigation Water recycling

The great aquifers that supply water for irrigation are being depleted.

Sprinkling water in front of buildings in the summer is prohibited. Use recycled water for irrigation purposes.

We have established a full ministry responsible for water development and irrigation.

The most important problems are drinking and irrigation water, and internal communication roads.

Farm water may include water used in the irrigation of crops, water used to leach harmful salts from agricultural fields and water used for environmental management.

A water meadow (also water meadow or watermeadow) is an area of grassland subject to controlled irrigation to increase agricultural productivity.

WK Yeah, I want to build another one to pump water and irrigation for crops.

Areas covered include educational approaches aimed at farmers and farm communities technical materials for irrigation professionals irrigation scheme management training courses and policy advice in agricultural water management.

The decisions also set out specific actions for better water management, including more efficient irrigation, and for training farmers and water users associations in efficient water use.

The new budget, recognizing the country s acute water crisis, also calls for more money to expand irrigation.

Water In some areas sufficient rainfall is available for crop growth, but many other areas require irrigation.

Regarding soil and water conservation, improved irrigation techniques, introduction of water use policies and monitoring of competing uses and demands for water, soil and water conservation techniques, and flood controls were seen as important.

Generally, these countries citizens enjoy services that provide for all water needs, from drinking to irrigation to sanitation.

(Afghanistan) providing training to promote vegetable cultivation at kitchen gardens among impoverished families repairing water channels for irrigation measures.

It advocated Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) as the solution, an approach that sought to involve farmers in water management decisions.

SahysMod is such a polygonal groundwater model permitting to assess the use of well water for irrigation, the effects on soil salinity and on depth of the water table.

Rich countries should help African farmers use improved seed varieties, more fertilizer, and better water management, such as small scale irrigation.

Furthermore, the Royal Irrigation Department has organized the annual award for cooperative leaders with the most effective water resource management skills.

Parties indicated adverse effects on their water resources by as much as 30 per cent due to higher evaporation levels, water shortages and droughts, and an increase in water demand for irrigation (e.g. Argentina, Zimbabwe).

Water scarcity could be addressed through modern water conservation techniques in agriculture (such as drip irrigation, on farm water management, lining of watercourses and canals, etc.) and through more traditional techniques (such as rainwater harvesting).

Yet part of that increased agricultural output resulted from millions of wells that were sunk to tap underground water supplies for irrigation.

Other problems include degradation of irrigation and drainage infrastructure, the shortage of subsidies for the use of water and electricity, poorer skills of specialists, and the weakening of land and water resource institutions.

These options involved measures to increase efficiency either by recycling water or restructuring water networks, or by finding ways to decrease demand, such as by changing cropping schedules to reduce the demand for irrigation.

Some of the main projects in the more desertic areas include the treatment of salty and brackish water, drainage and irrigation and increased well drilling.

If water can be managed through irrigation, this could be combined with multi cropping (multiple harvests per year) to produce a crop during the dry season.

Surface irrigation water normally contains salts in the order of 0.5 g l or more and the annual irrigation requirement is in the order of 10000 m³ ha or more so the annual import of salt is in the order of 5000 kg ha or more.

The effects are unpredictable but likely to be huge, in terms of crop production, diseases, costs and availability of irrigation and drinking water, coastal erosion, and so forth

If there are no natural water sources near their plot, then farming is not possible, because no farm by itself is capable of creating an effective irrigation system.

Hence, according to Iraq, any increase in salinity, which is a key parameter in the claim unit, could only have resulted from mismanagement of water used for irrigation.

Irrigation is used in the surgical site.

But irrigation facilities need to be developed.

It s high time for a strategy of peace through sustainable development including investments in health, education, livelihoods, water and sanitation, and irrigation in today s hotspots, starting with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

These can all potentially be designed to improve and expand water supplies for power generation, irrigation, and household and industrial use, while providing security against droughts and protection from floods.

Because rain falls only in the winter, and largely in the northern part of the country, irrigation and water engineering are considered vital to the country's economic survival and growth.

The pressure is increasing on dryland ecosystems for the provision of services such as food, forage, fuel, building materials, and water for humans and livestock, for irrigation, and for sanitation.

Given the broad practical experience of Uzbekistan's experts and the fact that we have prepared draft documentation for water and irrigation facilities for the northern part of Afghanistan, my country has the capability to organize the work to restore Afghanistan's water supply systems.

There is also a need to intensify efforts to develop water and land related technologies for irrigation and water desalination, using solar energy technologies, and to develop pollution control measures, including integrated programmes for pest management and the control of chemical pollution.

All right, Cleese erupts in exasperation. But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Moreover, aside from rainfall patterns, climate change is upsetting the flow of rivers, as glaciers, which provide a huge amount of water for irrigation and household use, are rapidly receding due to global warming.

Jordan submitted results of monitoring and assessment studies which it claims show a reduction in crop yields due to decreased quality and quantity of irrigation water as a result of increased consumption of freshwater.

Upstream dams, barrages, canals, and irrigation systems can help fashion water into a political weapon that can be wielded overtly in a war, or subtly in peacetime to signal dissatisfaction with a co riparian state.

Irrigation and water supply systems and facilities in the energy, agro and forestry industries had been set up with the assistance of Belarusian experts and had made active use of the country's technology and equipment.

Living standards could be improved significantly and rapidly through low cost targeted investments in malaria control, school feeding programs, rainwater harvesting for drinking water, mobile health clinics, and boreholes for livestock and irrigation in appropriate locations.

Based on the growing legal foundation for Uzbek Afghan cooperation, our country is providing assistance to the Afghan people in reconstructing and building its infrastructure, including road and transportation lines, water management and energy facilities, and irrigation structures.