Norman Borlaug

In future irrigation schemes, water drainage and removal systems should be budgeted from the start of the project. Unfortunately, adding such costs to the original project often will result in a poor return on investment. Society then will have to decide how much it is willing to subsidize new irrigation development.

American Scientist

Jimmy Dean

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.

American Actor

Moshe Sharett

As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets.

Israeli Statesman

William Kamkwamba

I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. People in rural places could use the water for irrigation or for drinking.

Malawian Inventor

Michael Specter

To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world without roads or proper irrigation may be a fantasy based on the finest intentions. But it is a cruel fantasy nonetheless.

American Journalist

Sheri L. Dew

I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.

American Author

David McCandless

Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.

British Journalist

Jim Costa

Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.

American Politician

Imtiaz Ali

My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

Indian Director

C. S. Lewis

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

British Writer

Irrigate is used for watering crops and is vital for plant growth in agriculture.

Cultivation Use

Common in regions with dry climates where rainfall isn't sufficient for agriculture.

Geographical Context

Irrigation can refer to sophisticated systems like sprinklers or drip lines, not just simple watering.

Advanced Systems

In medical contexts, irrigating is a careful cleaning process, not just washing.

Medical Procedure

Sterile fluids are used to irrigate in medical settings to prevent infection.

Sterility Important

Other liquids, like saline solutions, can be used to irrigate medically, not just water.

Not Always Water

 now i'm tracking down innovators who are trying to turn the tide we're here in the trenches right in a desperate fight to change our water thirsty ways laser leveling our field helps us be very efficient with our irrigation but we can't just rely on the experts to bring us back from the brink

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 Under their protective coverings, these glacierets transform into fully active glaciers that grow each year with additional snowfall. Those then serve as lasting reserves of water that farmers can use to irrigate their crops. These practices have spread to other cultures,

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 Because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium. Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.

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 lastly egyptians developed methods to measure and survey land around the nile river these civil engineering feats made way for the construction of dams canals and irrigation systems that helped farming and agriculture to flourish in the nile valley

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 He said this project wasn't so sustainable, and it bothered those that instituted the whole package. But then he mentioned a particular project, a particular traditional irrigation method that was hugely successful

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 help grow more food with less water let's start with two seeds and let's put hydrogel on one side now will irrigate both sides and in sandy soil much of the water runs down past the plant and into the ground below

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 crystal streams but now makes its home in these irrigation ditches the giant salamander this cold-blooded Leviathan is protected as a national treasure so I'm meeting up with a licensed expert

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 So that would produce irrigation for the entire village? Yeah. Wow. And so you're talking to people here at TED to get people who might be able to help in some way to realize this dream?

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 It said a windmill could pump water and generate electricity. Pump water meant irrigation, a defense against hunger, which we were experiencing by that time.