irrigation

Ahead of possible storms, farmers and managers of irrigation districts are discussing where they’ll put all the water if it comes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

It’s killing the farmers who fill combines and irrigation pumps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Months of preparation, studying irrigation, and carefully controlled water and nutrition went into growing the giant vegetable.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

Projects have included blocking irrigation canals to help restore wetlands, strengthening firefighting capabilities, and stepping up efforts to prevent accidental human ignitions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Soon salmon and steelhead and trout from the Dungeness made their way up the irrigation ditch and gathered in schools in the pond.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

"I can go online and see what irrigations are needed down in Santa Barbara, 300 miles away," says Mr Maraden, who is based in Napa, north west of San Francisco.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2024

To do it, the country had to build massive irrigations systems and will use up to 800 Olympic-sized swimming pools’ worth of water.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2022

“If you took all the people who say they have chronic sinusitis in the world, and you put them all on nasal saline irrigations, a big proportion would not have any symptoms anymore,” he said.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2011

Using satellite imagery between 1998 and 2002, Beman and colleagues discovered algae blooms up to 220 square miles large that followed just days after the periodic irrigations in the valley.

From Washington Post

If you want to improve your afalfa, keep everything else out of the field and help the plants by regular irrigations during the balance of the growing season.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson