17 example sentences using irrigate.
Irrigate used in a sentence
Irrigate in a sentence as a verb
Or when aquifers run out of freshwater used to irrigate fields
Doesn't it take a TON of energy to pump enough water to irrigate a field up 50 stories?
With 35 acres you get the right to irrigate one acre. You aren't supposed to recapture grey water or rain.
So you can irrigate 70 000 hectares with that much water at that depth per area of land. I am saying the math is way simpler and you can pretty much do it in your head.
Or you've started using rainbarrels to naturally irrigate your backyard. Or your city has changed which days you can water your lawn on.
"How much would you charge to naturally irrigate the sahara desert"?" How many golf balls can you fit in a bus" "How many piano tuners could be employed in Seattle?
A chemical burn from sodium hydroxide is difficult to irrigate. Chemical burns need to be treated by a hospital.
None of that land would be inhabited without the tremendous efforts of the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1800's to irrigate that land. Nobody who owns land in say Arizona can claim that they have a "natural right" to all of the proceeds of that land.
However, why is it that this kind of electronics is only ever used to irrigate plants, open/close doors or windows and maybe control lights in a room. The arduino platform seems very popular, yet where are the really amazing projects?
So all the industrial producers should do is get massive amounts of water, mix their acid whey with it, then use that mixture to irrigate the larger area around their plants? Maybe just inject their whey into irrigation systems at the point they pump up their water?
"If you look through the scientific literature, especially on India and China, they irrigate their crops with raw sewage effluent and untreated industrial effluent," he explained." &;&."
"If you look through the scientific literature, especially on India and China, they irrigate their crops with raw sewage effluent and untreated industrial effluent," he explained." I guess that gives new meaning to rice that's "organic"
Of course nothing was said about the wine industry, or how California uses 6 billion gallons of water annually to irrigate highway vegetation.
The architecture of the greenhouse acts as a solar desalinator that in testing creates more water than is needed to irrigate the plants, so it not only grows plants, but also can provide clean water in the desert.
To irrigate nearly 60,000 acres of farmland." That's 11 m3/second on average, so about the same order of magnitude. Also, "Overall crop production exceeds half a billion dollars a year." By comparison, Israel has about 460,000 acres of farmland and California has 9 million acres of irrigated land.
Manifest destiny" led the federal government to direct the Army Corps of Engineers to irrigate all these places that wouldn't have been habitable otherwise, and now we have a bunch of people living in places that are simply inappropriate for civilization given the water constraints.
This varies from simply collecting and distributing water via gravity-flow reservoirs and irrigation ditches to transporting water and irrigation pumps and pipes to water mines which, again, deplete a resource faster than it is restored -- as is the case throughout the eastern Plains states in the US, much of China, and especially in the Sahara and Arabian penninsula where water tens of thousands of years old is used to irrigate crops, from underground reserves which aren't being replenished. Water availability itself is becoming a significant concern, with major droughts in the past 5 years disrupting crops in Russia, the United States, China, India, and of course, as is rather chronically the case, Africa.
Irrigate definitions
supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams; "Water the fields"
See also: water
supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting; "irrigate the wound"