irrigation

Lee said her family, which uses water-saving drip irrigation, should be allowed to pump more to keep the farm going.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

The national authorities imposed irrigation restrictions on farmers in the southeast but those AFP talked to said they had not been affected so far.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

After a government irrigation canal next to his farm dried up recently just before this year’s rice-sowing season, he decided to sow corn instead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Nearly half of the country's net sown farmland has no assured irrigation and depends largely on rainfall, making the timing and spread of the monsoon critical for millions of farmers.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

The water became irrigation for farmland around the city.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

"I can go online and see what irrigations are needed down in Santa Barbara, 300 miles away," says Mr Maraden, who is based in Napa, north west of San Francisco.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2024

To do it, the country had to build massive irrigations systems and will use up to 800 Olympic-sized swimming pools’ worth of water.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2022

“If you took all the people who say they have chronic sinusitis in the world, and you put them all on nasal saline irrigations, a big proportion would not have any symptoms anymore,” he said.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2011

Using satellite imagery between 1998 and 2002, Beman and colleagues discovered algae blooms up to 220 square miles large that followed just days after the periodic irrigations in the valley.

From Washington Post

Why should I allude to irrigations, why to the diggings of the ground, why to the trenching by which the ground is made much more productive?

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)