irrigated

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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

It has argued that just a 2% reduction in the amount of water it gets from the Nile could result in the loss of 200,000 acres of irrigated land.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2025

The troubling images were captured at Rancho Izaguirre — an arid, two-acre rectangular patch with sheds and other structures situated amid irrigated farmland just 37 miles from downtown Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-largest city.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025

Other scenarios simulate idling irrigated farmland, reducing pumping in areas where groundwater levels are forecast to decrease the most, setting limits on how much groundwater can be pumped and curtailing junior water rights.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2024

Certainly its presence was enough to account for the damage to crops irrigated with this water.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson