Irrigation may be required, and may be provided via a form of underground tunnel called a qanat, that transports water from a local aquifer.

The North Poudre Irrigation Company supplies water to local agricultural operations through the Park Creek Reservoir, located on CR 80.

Irrigation from the Murray and rich local soil has allowed for diverse crops.

Leeton Shire is a local government area in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia and in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area.

This project irrigates and serves water to 450 farms, according to the manager of the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Districts.

Irrigation slowly changed the sagebrush landscape into farms growing sugar beets, alfalfa, and other crops.

Many small diversion dams block the Merced River downstream, many of which were built by the Merced Irrigation District to supply water to farms in the Central Valley.

These reservoirs provide electricity and divert water to serve farms in the Modesto Irrigation District and Turlock Irrigation District, and cities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In the 1950s a firm based in Portland, Oregon Stout-Wyss Irrigation System, developed the rolling pipe type irrigation system for farms that has become the most popular type for farmers irrigating large fields.

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Irrigation takes up to 90 % of water withdrawn in some developing countries and significant proportions in more economically developed countries ( United States, 30 % of freshwater usage is for irrigation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

* 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.

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

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

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.

Irrigation runoff is in places returned to the river through canal drains.

Irrigation is made easy by the three nearby rivers.

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

The construction is considered one of the three great feats of Ancient Chinese engineering, the others being the Great Wall and the Sichuan Dujiangyan Irrigation System.

Irrigation is a massive use of groundwater with 80 % of the world ’ s groundwater used for agricultural production.

Delhi is in the Turlock Irrigation District, which provides farm water and electrical service.

Electricity is provided by the Indio-based Imperial Irrigation District and Southern California Edison across Washington Street.

Irrigation is no problem for Ruskin is favored with numerous artesian wells.

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

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

Few initiatives taken in post-independence of India for developing Kalahandi were only during non-congress rule in India such as Upper Indiravati Irrigation Project ( during Moraji Desai as Prime Minister of India ), Lanjigarh road-Jungarh ( during Chandrasekhar as Prime Minister of India ), National Highway 201 & 217 passing through Kalahandi ( during Atal Bihari Vajpayee as Prime Minister of India ), all these projects are not yet fully accomplished.

These were replaced by hydraulic systems ( T-L Irrigation ) and electric motor driven systems ( Reinke, Valley, Zimmatic ).

These sprinklers are manufactured by Nelson Irrigation and Senniger Irrigation.

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

In addition, the government-subsidized federal reclamation project, the Klamath Irrigation Project, dammed upper tributaries and drained much of the Lower Klamath and Tule lakes to convert of former lakebed and wetlands into farmland, to be supported by irrigation.

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

The city of Mercedes was founded September 15, 1907, by the American Rio Grande Land & Irrigation Company, and was incorporated March 8, 1909.

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

While Lake Tahoe is a natural lake, it is also used for water storage by the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District ( TCID ).

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.

Irrigation, sericulture, and weaving were also brought to Japan by Chinese immigrants who are mentioned in the ancient Japanese histories.

Irrigation in the vast area downstream of the Vanderkloof Dam, which has turned thousands of hectares of arid veld into highly productive agricultural land, was made possible by the construction of the Gariep Dam and the Vanderkloof Dam.

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.

The town lies within the Ord Irrigation Area Important Bird Area ( IBA ), so identified by BirdLife International because of its importance for wild birds, especially estrildid finches.

In Bend, much of the river's waters is diverted for irrigation by the Central Oregon Irrigation District ; as a result, the river is much smaller when it leaves the city.

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.

* Agriculture by Irrigation ( 1894 )

It is operated by the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District.

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.