irrigation

At the same time, human withdrawals of groundwater have become an increasingly significant source of depletion, particularly in downstream agricultural regions that rely heavily on irrigation.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

The agency has imposed restrictions on irrigation, while limiting how much certain locks can open to reduce the loss of fresh water and to prevent too much salt water from entering the network.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

Though not immediately visible to the naked eye, the ranch features a number of infrastructural updates, including automated irrigation and a fire suppression system that runs off an 18,000-gallon tank buried underground.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

"Even if they get the irrigation then it's just extreme heat, which means the plant is not able to grow anymore."

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

The most important product of irrigation was cotton.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

"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

These vineyards which seem to have existed from very remote antiquity, were all in the plain, where they were subjected to continual irrigations after the system of the Greeks and Tatars.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell