irrigate

"Now you can't get away with that, you have to irrigate young trees or they die."

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

A water source gets contaminated in some way, and that water is then used to irrigate a field.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

One of the two canals that irrigate it has been shut because the seawater would enter and damage the crops.

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

Built to provide electricity for the southwestern United States and to irrigate Nevada, it was the great cause of Herbert Hoover.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

A single canal system could carry enough water to irrigate an estimated ten thousand acres.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

But thousands of men were pouring into Redding to build the dam — a 602-foot concrete behemoth that irrigates millions of acres of Central Valley farmland — and they sure worked up an appetite.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

A water system irrigates the plants via a nutrient substrate, a liquid fertiliser that replaces the nutrients and minerals naturally present in the soil.

From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026

Nearby, water pumped from the Ogallala Aquifer irrigates fields of peanuts and cotton.

From Salon ● May 7, 2024

And because most pumped groundwater irrigates crops, major declines in availability could lead to a global food crisis.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2023

Its effect has been to double the grass grown on the two acres it constantly irrigates, for which I paid $280, or more than thrice the cost of my irrigation.

From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Horace Greeley

Keep plants irrigated, grass mowed and tree branches 10 feet from chimneys and structures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Janssen explained that 200 units of nitrogen are used per acre of irrigated corn.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026

The property features three creeks that “meander through the ranch for over five miles,” as well as irrigated meadows and “historic water rights irrigating 1,200 acres.”

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025

It has argued that just a 2% reduction in the amount of water it gets from the Nile could result in the loss of 200,000 acres of irrigated land.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2025

Outdoors, while Pacheco irrigated squash, Joe’s Beanfield took baths in the icy water.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Italy’s longest river, the Po, is essential for irrigating farmland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Christine Devin, who arrived in 1974 after travelling overland on the hippie trail from Paris, remembers digging wells, irrigating the land and everyone pitching in to build houses and communal buildings like the solar kitchen.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

He had the cost of irrigating twice more over the summer due to prolonged hot weather.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

Cotton growers objected to irrigating 1 million acres in the Imperial Valley, corn farmers objected to a million more acres of corn, and wheat growers to a million competing acres of wheat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025

“Then what you’re saying, Em, is that this Joe Mondragon is illegally irrigating his father’s land, or his own land as the case may be, over there on the west side.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols