David Stower, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Water and Irrigation of Kenya.
The recipient is therefore expected to invest in the land, in the form of water and irrigation infrastructure, roads, storage facilities and so on.
There is also concern about how ground water and irrigation wells will be affected: it is hard to judge how long it takes for a coal aquifer to refill.
The objective of the training was to introduce water management techniques and tools for newly appointed staff of the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, the Jordan Water Authority and Jordan Valley Authority.
Of greatest concern initially, the Keystone XL pipeline was designed to run through Nebraska's Sandhills, which lie above the Ogallala Aquifer, the main source of drinking water and irrigation for millions of people.
As a part of the project, a manual on water education was developed in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, the Ministry of Environment and the Jordan National Commission for Education, Culture and Science.
Nayef Al Fayez, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Professor Kamel Abu Jaber, Director of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Mr. Maysoon Al Zubi, Secretary General at the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, as well as with the United Nations Resident Coordinator, Mr. Luc Stevens.
Before retiring Mr Pim worked on water supply and irrigation projects in deserts, mainly in the Middle East.
This is definitely worrisome to environmentalists, , nature lovers and the populations on either coastline, who depend on the water for irrigation of crops and drinking water.
Purves is very concerned about the glaciers in the Himalayan mountains that are the main source of water for irrigation and drinking in China and India, well over 2 billion people.
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In China, the software is being used to help the government as it spends billions of dollars to improve hydropower production, increase forested land to help store and meet out water, and make sure there is enough water for irrigation needs, among other goals.
Use of sewage and industrially contaminated water for irrigation has drenched Punjab's soils in heavy metals and other poisons.
Among these figure water-harvesting technologies and drip irrigation, as well as technologies that recycle grey water in peri-urban agriculture.
Other ministry mandates include for designated areas include purification of water used for irrigation and physical inspections and testing of every sack of rice produced.
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The project uses non-conventional water sources for irrigation, including desalinated water surplus and treated wastewater.
Lakes and reservoirs provide a range of resource values, including drinking water, irrigation water, navigation, fisheries, tourism, recreation, flood and drought management, climate mediation, as well as having religious and historic values.
For instance, Zheng notes that China's local governments love large-scale flood control and hydroelectric projects and ignore smaller-scale efforts to improve irrigation and provide drinking water.
"Using these plants, we will be able to remove radioactive nuclides from the water and make it clean for irrigation purposes or even as a source of drinking water, " says Slavik Dushenkov of Phytotech.
Groundwater is the source for nearly half of all drinking water in the world and around 43% of all water effectively consumed in irrigation.
Murrin's other bets imply that after a hiatus during the recession, a Malthusian shortage of grains, irrigation water, gold and oil will reassert itself.
On July 20th, the Tigers closed the sluice gates of a dam, depriving thousands of families, mostly from the ethnic Sinhalese majority, of irrigation and drinking water.
This system will provide a common platform for all stakeholders of flood management and related activities including Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), Indus River System Authority (IRSA), Federal Flood Commission (FFC), Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), Indus Water Commissioner (IWC), provincial irrigation departments, and many others.
Never mind that the water at issue did not run across any state borders and that the irrigation wells at issue have no connection to any drinking water supply.
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In Soviet times, Tajikistan like other Central Asian republics, particularly Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan used to take far too much water from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers for grandiose irrigation schemes, mainly for cotton farming.
We help these families have permanent land for cultivation, we help them access modern technology with low-water-intake drip irrigation, we create village reservoirs for year-round water, and then we teach them to produce fruits and vegetables with a harvest every two weeks so they can sell year round.
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With rivers flowing weakly, the tide pushed sea-water in, both cutting fish catches and preventing irrigation.
Elements of the approach are similar to that in Andhra Pradesh: farmers gather in water-users' associations to plan and operate irrigation services, for example.
It provides almost a third of all irrigation water in the United States and over 80% of the drinking water to 35 million United States citizens.
Ltd. (GEWP), a for-profit company, has been improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of small farmers and their families by offering affordable water irrigation tools.
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An ancient system of water rights means that many farmers pay only modest amounts to obtain their annual allocations from the Rio Grande, and poor pipelines and irrigation systems allow lots of water to leak out.
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