Irrigation is also now common in cities ( gardens and recreation areas ).

Irrigation now assures crops, but in earlier days a dry summer made the grass scarce and the name " Freeze-out Bench " was applied to the area.

( The old bank building is now the office of the Stanfield Irrigation District.

The old path of the Huai He is now marked by a series of irrigation channels, the most significant of which is the North Jiangsu Irrigation Main Channel ( 苏北灌溉总渠 ), which channels a small amount of the water of the Huai He alongside south of its old path into the sea.

* Scandia-Scandia Eastern Irrigation District Museum, 1920s Alberta Wheat Pool and stockyard now a museum.

Irrigation was also trialled in the West Kimberley by way of the now defunct Camballin Irrigation Scheme.

It was built as a joint venture by Rand Water and the Department of Irrigation ( now known as the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry ).

One of his remarkable achievements was the Construction of an Irrigation System which was later taken over and enlarged by the government ( now the Talavera River Irrigation System ) which irrigates vast ricefields as far as the towns of Muñoz and Talavera.

As of now, out of the original 50 FTL pillars fixed by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and the Hyderabad Lake Management Circle of the Irrigation Department, 13 pillars stand disturbed and removed by the encroachers.

There are now eleven post-graduate courses leading to Masters of Engineering degree in Highways, Structures, Hydraulics and Irrigation, Rotodynamic Machines, Electrical Power Systems, Environmental Engineering ( Interdisciplinary ), Electronics Metallurgical Engineering and C. I. M.

Mr Balfour was a civil engineer, and worked for the Government as the Director of Irrigation in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ).

Irrigation in the county led to more acres being planted on sorghum, cotton, alfalfa, watermelons and castor beans.

In the 1930s, the Indian Irrigation Service constructed two concrete diversion dams on nearby T ' iisnazbas Creek.

Irrigation systems and agriculture were developed in the area, and it was Elias Smith who proposed the area's name on account of its successful farming.

Kununurra was built on land resumed from Ivanhoe Station pastoral lease before 1961, as the town for the Ord River Irrigation Area which started as the Ord River Project or Ord Scheme, with survey work starting in 1959.

This dam with twenty radial flood gates was almost completed when visited by the Queen and Prince Phillip in March 1963, then later completed and officially opened by then Prime Minister, ( Sir ) Robert Menzies on 20 July 1963 when he said that Kununurra and the Ord River Irrigation Area ( ORIA ) is ".. the most exciting place in Australia.

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.

The Truckee – Carson Irrigation District ( TCID ) is a political subdivision of the State of Nevada, which operates dams at Lake Tahoe, on the Truckee River and Lake Lahontan as well as of canals and of drains in support of agriculture in Lyon County and Churchill County.

More recently agriculture has been focused on the Ord River Irrigation Area near Kununurra.

After the surprising victory of the National Party in 1948, won on the program of implementing a strict program of apartheid or racial segregation and white minority rule, Malan became Prime Minister of South Africa and Strijdom became Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation.

Dr Rashid is a chartered engineer, a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineering and the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage ( ICID ).

Irrigation system in Yuma County, Colorado | Yuma County, on the far Eastern Plains of Colorado.

In 1986, Post Graduate courses on ( i ) Fracture Mechanics ( ii ) Irrigation Water Management ( iii ) Turbojet Propulsion and ( iv ) Microprocessor Applications were introduced.

* Irrigation Association Smart Water Application Technology-site with generic information on smart controllers

It is an important destination for travellers as it lies on the junction of the Newell and Sturt Highways and it is the gateway to the productive Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area.

He worked on several committees of the state and central government, including the Parliamentary Standing committee on Finance ; the Patents Committee ; the Planning Board ; the Resources Mobilization Committee ; the Taxation Reforms Committee, and the High Power Committee on Irrigation and Transport.

Irrigation is used on about within the Malheur River basin.

Cutler authorized the purchase of the entire Bear River Irrigation Company, plus an option on of land from the Bear River Land Company, in 1901.

The major multipurpose project ( Irrigation, Hydropower, Flood Control, development of Fisheries, Tourism and so forth ) built on the river is the Ranjit Sagar Dam ( also known as Thein dam as it is located in Thein village ).

He served as chairman of the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation.

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.

Between 1932 and 1940, the Imperial Irrigation District ( IID ) relied on the Inter-California Canal and the Imperial Canal and Alamo River.

Thompson died in 1910, but his efforts came to fruition as The Maverick County Irrigation Canal system, operational by April 1932.

Jack Swilling set up the Swilling Irrigation Canal Company to refurbish and improve upon the ancient irrigation system originally constructed by the Hohokam.

Irrigation for farming is still obtained through the western Irrigation Company Canal, constructed in 1858 and enlarged in 1884.

Irrigation water was brought to the area via the Sunnyside Canal in 1947, allowing the area to grow considerably.

In 1905, the Spokane Canal Company built a canal to irrigate the Otis Orchard area with water from Newman Lake, and Modern Irrigation and Land Company tapped into the underground aquifer to irrigate 3, 000 acres ( 12 km² ) in Opportunity.

Major examples of such waterworks include the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, which controlled the Min River in Sichuan and turned the former backwater region into a major Qin logistical base, and the Zhengguo Canal which irrigated large areas of land in the Guanzhong Plain, again increasing Qin's agricultural output.

The opening of the Meiji Irrigation Canal transformed the area in the 1920s and 1930s into one of the most agriculturally productive regions of the period, sparking the comparison with Denmark, then regarded the most highly advanced agricultural nation in the world.

– Boghra Irrigation Canal

* Galt Irrigation Canal, first major irrigation project in Canada, a National Historic Site of Canada.

The Irrigation Canal, which carries water to the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area to Narrandera's west, flows through the town.

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.

Irrigation and farming was revitalised after the Jamrao Canal was built in the 1900s.

Together with the Dujiangyan Irrigation System and Lingqu Canal, it is one of the three biggest water conservation projects before the Qin Dynasty in ancient China.

* McFarland, J. Randall, " Water for a Thirsty Land -- The Consolidated Irrigation District and Its Canal Development History ", Selma, Calif .: Consolidated Irrigation District, 1996.

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.