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They have left vineyards struggling to sufficiently irrigate their plants, and caused crop yields to dwindle.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

A water source gets contaminated in some way, and that water is then used to irrigate a field.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

Then you’d have to add on the costs to irrigate and maintain the fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Built to provide electricity for the southwestern United States and to irrigate Nevada, it was the great cause of Herbert Hoover.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

A single canal system could carry enough water to irrigate an estimated ten thousand acres.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

A water system irrigates the plants via a nutrient substrate, a liquid fertiliser that replaces the nutrients and minerals naturally present in the soil.

From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026

Nearby, water pumped from the Ogallala Aquifer irrigates fields of peanuts and cotton.

From Salon ● May 7, 2024

And because most pumped groundwater irrigates crops, major declines in availability could lead to a global food crisis.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2023

It also irrigates California’s powerful agriculture industry while providing drinking water to 25 million people.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

So plentiful is the supply that it not only irrigates the flourishing gardens but runs in streams through the streets.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

For golf courses this means the greens and tees can be irrigated but the fairways cannot.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Janssen explained that 200 units of nitrogen are used per acre of irrigated corn.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026

The property features three creeks that “meander through the ranch for over five miles,” as well as irrigated meadows and “historic water rights irrigating 1,200 acres.”

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025

They added that much of the Southern California farmland that relies on Colorado River water is “either fully or partially irrigated via flood irrigation, which uses much more water than drip and sprinkler irrigation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025

A rice paddy has to be irrigated, so a complex system of dikes has to be built around the field.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Italy’s longest river, the Po, is essential for irrigating farmland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

It's essential to the entire operation here: irrigating young plants, spraying fertilizers and plowing the soil.

From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026

He had the cost of irrigating twice more over the summer due to prolonged hot weather.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

Cotton growers objected to irrigating 1 million acres in the Imperial Valley, corn farmers objected to a million more acres of corn, and wheat growers to a million competing acres of wheat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025

High above the creek a spring seeps from the cliff face, irrigating a growth of moss and maidenhair fern that hangs from the rock in lush green mats.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer