But drip irrigation isn't the only innovation.

(a) Water saving techniques, such as sprinkler irrigation, drip irrigation, micro drop irrigation and fertilization systems

Yet the investment in drip irrigation is generally more expensive than less efficient irrigation methods.

For starters, to ease some of the resource pressure, livestock producers should switch to water saving technologies, including drip irrigation.

Irrigation

We need to invest in real solutions incentives for farmers, precision agriculture, new crop varieties, drip irrigation, gray water recycling, better tillage practices, smarter diets.

Now, this would require nutrients and water.

Water Irrigation Water quality Wind damage

Irrigation is the biggest use of water on the planet.

We use 2,800 cubic kilometers of water on crops every year.

In southern European countries, 60 of all water abstracted is used for irrigation.

I want to share one story about an innovation called drip irrigation.

Irrigation, if properly managed, is a valuable tool in producing a predictable crop.

Experts have been preaching crop diversity, irrigation, and improved soil nutrients for decades.

As I remember, you can irrigate one acre with about 15,000 cubic feet of water.

Harvests may halve and rivers on which irrigation and hydropower depend may become a mere trickle. On the other hand, too much rainfall can be as bad as too little, especially when it comes out of season.

Because of the high use of its waters for irrigation, it only flows into the Caspian when it is in flood stage.

In the Kuban, farms with irrigation can expect at least this level of improvement, or even higher.

Advantage agriculture can be practiced all over the world, although in some cases it takes extensive manipulation of the environment, like, you know, irrigation, controlled flooding, terracing, that kind of thing.

Fogging and spraying of residential communities, which has not been as widespread as is needed to keep the mosquito population at bay, will also be on the increase.

In some areas, modestly warmer temperatures could produce higher crop yields if associated changes in precipitation patterns are not adverse and or irrigation remains viable.

Whilst irrigation is a useful aid to crop establishment in dry springs, its major benefit is in the period from late June through to September.

The present non availability of power and fuel hampers practically all essential services of society, such as public administration, health care, irrigation, telecommunications, civil aviation, road transport and industrial production.

(c) Specific project initiatives in sectors such as reforestation, small scale irrigation, land reclamation, shelterbelts and soil and water conservation (China, India, Pakistan, Syria)

These projects, involving large numbers of local labour, have helped to contain the insurgency irrigation, wells, drinking water, reforestation, fruit trees, soil protection and increase in cultivable areas.

The project's initial purpose was irrigation, but the onset of World War II created a high demand for electricity, mainly for aluminum production and for the development of nuclear weapons at the Hanford Site.

Considerably lower proportions of women were involved, however, in mechanized activities requiring the use of agricultural machinery, such as mechanical harvesting, irrigation, fertilizing and pest control, all of which demand a considerable amount of physical strength.

Where you are calm, where I used my Slshaurim come before time and arrange and pay me Amfim, Cool as a cucumber they reach a level of rabbinic days slow drip, Operation Moses if the moment they got the planes and rugs with their coffee cup

For over three decades, it had shared its know how and experience in such areas as alternate energy development, literacy, water engineering and irrigation and rural and community development.

In addition to isolation, other problems include droughts in Africa, where farmers depend on rainfall rather than irrigation, and high disease burdens in tropical countries suffering from malaria, dengue fever, and other killer diseases.

Then we'd had 100 years of modern rain science, and that had accelerated desertification, as we first discovered in Africa and then confirmed in the United States, and as you see in this picture of land managed by the federal government.

It is estimated that as a direct result of intensive agriculture, around 20 of the territory of Serbia and Montenegro (20 000 km2) is classified as 'degraded by water and wind erosion' (Marczin, 2005).

Well, in the 1950s, the Soviets decided to divert that water to irrigate the desert to grow cotton, believe it or not, in Kazakhstan, to sell cotton to the international markets to bring foreign currency into the Soviet Union.