irrigation
灌溉,灌水,灌溉工程,灌溉方面
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- : the artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops.
- : Medicine/Medical. the flushing or washing out of anything with water or other liquid.
- : the state of being irrigated.
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They store winter snow and rain and release moisture slowly to rivers for downstream irrigation and municipal supplies during the state’s dry summers.
Some farms employ dozens of whipping water sprinklers that toss irrigation into the air before hitting the soil in 108-degree heat.
In a region with two rainy seasons and two dry seasons, access to water can also be an issue, but to get around this, Ouko tops off his pond with water from his irrigation dam when the need arises.
A Ceres image of one customer’s fields highlights parts of an orchard in yellow where irrigation equipment may have clogged or broken down, Madgavkar explains.
Much of the Ogallala Aquifer — which supplies nearly a third of the nation’s irrigation groundwater — could be gone by the end of the century.
Each year their fields need at least 53 billion cubic meters of water for irrigation.
The giant irrigation projects began in the 1960s in the dry lands of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
The air mixed with fertilizers and pesticides that for decades were washed from the fields into the sea by irrigation water.
It thus falls to IS to provide drinking water and irrigation to massive areas of farmland.
This process can be mechanically assisted by deep belly massages and, yes, colonic irrigation.
Water itself is of course essential to the growth of every plant, but the benefits of reach far beyond this.