Irrigation began in 1881 and the main crop was fruit trees.

Irrigation agriculture in riverine environments in Zuni began about 3, 000 years ago.

Irrigation began between 1951 and 1953 as six of the 12 pumps were installed and Banks Lake was filled.

A town had been platted and promoted as Ruby Townsite by Harley J. Hooker, who sold land for $ 1. 25 per acre when the Jordan Valley Irrigation District began constructing an irrigation dam and canal system near Danner about 1910.

Irrigation water began to arrive between 1948 and 1952, but the costs escalated, resulting in the original plan, in which the people receiving irrigation water would pay back the costs of the project over time, being repeatedly revised and becoming a permanent water subsidy.

A settlement began to grow in 1887, when the Renmark Irrigation Settlement was established by George and William Chaffey, who created a system of open drains using water from the Murray, to allow orchards to be planted in the area.

Irrigation agriculture began in the 1880s.

In 1906, construction began on the Tieton Irrigation Project, a division of the broader Yakima Project.

Irrigation water became available in 1907, and shortly thereafter, orchards began to replace wheatfields.

The Ord River Irrigation Area ( ORIA ), which was originally known as the Ord River Irrigation Scheme ( ORIS ) or Ord River Project, when it was approved by the Commonwealth Government, late in 1959 and began in 1960 with the establishment of the town of Kununurra, which was gazetted a town on 10 February 1961.

Irrigation takes up to 90 % of water withdrawn in some developing countries and significant proportions in more economically developed countries ( United States, 30 % of freshwater usage is for irrigation ).

Irrigation using watering cans is to be found for example in peri-urban agriculture around large cities in some African countries.

Irrigation has also permitted some agriculture based upon the raising of livestock and the growing of hay and grain despite the low rainfall and a short growing season.

The North Jiangsu Irrigation Main Channel also diverts some of its water along its old historical course to the sea, and is planned to be upgraded with a new parallel channel.

It is also one of the few undammed rivers in California, despite the many attempts to do so by the Turlock Irrigation District ; and it has some of the best swimming holes in all of California.

However, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, San Diego Gas & Electric, Imperial Irrigation District, and some smaller municipal utilities serve substantial portions of the southern California territory.

Irrigation systems were also developed at this time, which aided in the rise of an agrarian society.

* Vas Irrigation: Injections of sterile water or euflavine ( which kills sperm ) in to the distal portion of the vas at the time of surgery brings about a near-immediate sterile ( azoospermatic ) condition.

Within a short time a store, a post office, and the Dry Gulch Irrigation Company were in business in the new town.

At the same time, he actively assisted Representative Francis G. Newlands ( later Senator ) of Nevada, George H. Maxwell of California, President of the National Irrigation Association, and others in the preparation and public presentation of various Congressional bills, one of which by the personal efforts of President Theodore Roosevelt became the Reclamation Act when signed by the latter on June 17, I902.

During his time in the Senate he was chairman of the U. S. Senate Committee on Railroads during the 64th Congress and of the U. S. Senate Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands during the 65th Congress.

In 1977 he was elected to the Indian Parliament and was inducted in the Morarji Desai Cabinat as the Agriculture Minister at the time when the Ministry included Irrigation Water Resources, Food, Environment and Forests, Consumer Affairs, Power and Chemical And Fertilizers and Rural Development. In 1978 Barnala signed the historic Ganga Waters Agreement ( Farakka Agreement ) with Bangladesh. In 1979 during the turmoil in the national govt when PM Morarji Desai resigned the then President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy toyed with the idea of appointing an interim Govt with Barnala as Prime Minister but had to drop the idea at the last moment fearing horse trading by a top member of the Cabinet, and Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh assumed Prime Minister ship

Meanwhile, Lim had to administer another major project in Kelantan, the Kemubu Irrigation Scheme at the same time.

Upon his entry into the Senate, Smith was assigned to the committees on the District of Columbia, Geological Survey, Public Land, Irrigation and Reclamation, Railroads The 62nd United States Congress was in its second session at the time of his entry and, with the 1912 U. S. Presidential election approaching, the new Senator found the Republican majority split between Roosevelt and Taft supporters.

The construction of the Irrigation Project and the military activity increased the population of Ephrata by a factor of eight between 1940 and 1960.

The St. Mary River Irrigation District ( SMRID ) is Canada ’ s largest irrigation district delivering water through of canals and pipelines to approximately of land south of the Oldman and South Saskatchewan Rivers between Lethbridge and Medicine Hat, Alberta.

Lake Talbot was formed in 1924 when the bank of the Irrigation Canal gave way, flooding the river flat between the canal and Bundidgerry Hill.

An Agreement between His Majesty ’ s Government of Nepal and the Government of India on the Gandak Irrigation and Power Project, signed at Kathmandu on 4 December 1959 ; which came in force upon signature ( somewhat modified in 1964 ), to construct the project comprising a barrage, canal head regulators and other appurtenant works about 33 m ( 100 ft ) below the existing Triveni Canal Head Regulator and of taking out canal systems for purposes development of irrigation and power for Nepal and India.

The Western Irrigation District ( WID ), headquartered in Strathmore, Alberta, was the second half of the land divested by the CPR.

Of the various identifications of Erlang Shen the most common is as Li Erlang, the second son of Li Bing, the engineer behind the Dujiangyan Irrigation System.

It was the second water storage project to be constructed by the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission of N. S. W.

In the Szechwan region belonging to the State of Qin of ancient China, the Dujiangyan Irrigation System was built in 256 BCE to irrigate an enormous area of farmland that today still supplies water.

* c 5400 BCE: Irrigation in Mesopotamia.

In April 2008, the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation of Yemen and Comoros Ministry of Fishery and Environment signed a " Memo of Understanding " ( MOU ) concerning agricultural cooperation.

Irrigation equipment is installed in the bed to provide irrigation for vine growth and for spring and autumn frost protection.

Irrigation is extremely wasteful of water because the distribution infrastructure is old and poorly maintained.

Irrigation is widely used, and marshlands in the Danube's floodplain have been diked and drained to provide additional tillable land.

Irrigation now depends mainly on the decrepit Garagum Canal, which carries water across Turkmenistan from the Amu Darya.

Valves are majorly used in water controlling for Irrigation as well as industrial, military, commercial, residential, and transport sectors.

* The enormous Du Jiang Yan Irrigation System of China is engineered and constructed by Li Bing in 256 BC.

* The Du Jiang Yan Irrigation System is constructed, ending flooding and irrigating thousands of square miles of land through an ingeniously designed system.

* c. 5400 BC: Irrigation and the beginning of the Sumerian civilization in Southern Iraq.

Irrigation is the artificial application of water to the land or soil.

Irrigation systems are also used for dust suppression, disposal of sewage, and in mining.

Irrigation is often studied together with drainage, which is the natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given area.

Irrigation systems are divided into zones because there is usually not enough pressure and available flow to run sprinklers for an entire yard or sports field at once.

There are many important multi-state irrigation projects in development, including the Godavari River Basin Irrigation Projects.

As of 2010, it's been reported that there are less than 12 U. S. manufacturers, of which five are major: Valmont Industries and their " Valley " products, Lindsay Corporation and their " Zimmatic " brand, Reinke Irrigation with their " Electrogator " machines, T-L Irrigation who make a hydrostatically powered system and Pierce Corporation and their " CircleMaster " products.