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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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.
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.
Farmers have plenty of water for irrigation from wells, but the expense is a killer.
The project uses non-conventional water sources for irrigation, including desalinated water surplus and treated wastewater.
The next step on the water is polishing which brings the waste water to a usable water for irrigation.
Use of sewage and industrially contaminated water for irrigation has drenched Punjab's soils in heavy metals and other poisons.
"Dry farming" is labor intensive, but in the American West, plentiful, cheap water for irrigation is a distant memory.
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.
Farmers in Mr Sharif's home province of Punjab, which accounts for over half of Pakistan's population, favour the scheme because it will provide more water for irrigation.
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.
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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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.
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.
Much of the rise in water consumption for irrigation will affect regions already suffering from water scarcity.
That way, he could ensure adequate irrigation water for his crops during the dry summer months.
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In Wyoming, anyone who does not use his irrigation water for five years risks losing it.
Israel is experimenting with drip hoses as one way to vastly reduce the water wasted in irrigation.
Before retiring Mr Pim worked on water supply and irrigation projects in deserts, mainly in the Middle East.
But there simply isn't enough water - the irrigation canals have not been repaired, the canals remain dry.
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The White Mountain Apache Tribe and Arizona Fishery Resources Office redesigned the dam to continue delivering irrigation water.
Mr McTiernan began using irrigation water from a rivulet running out of the Bighorn Mountains called Smith Creek.
Because rice is grown in heavily irrigated conditions, it is more susceptible than other staple crops to environmental pollutants in irrigation water.
Too much of this irrigation water is lost to evaporation, the water coverage is hard to control and wasted runoff can occur.
Friday and checked to see whether the lakes, against all odds, had risen high enough to allow irrigation water to be released.
About 10m hectares of crops are lost each year because of the high level of salts in the water used for irrigation.
But a low-head dam that delivered irrigation water also blocked fish movement.
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