LODI, Calif. — Responding to a global need for sustainable water use that’s driven by more frequent droughts and water scarcity, Uri Shani sought ways to change how farmers irrigate their fields. One ...

• Since water flows downhill, government urged to build gravity-fed irrigation system for rice farmers in Western Kenya to lower high production costs. •West Kano alone spends Sh22 million annually ...

Water conservation seems increasingly important to my husband and me as we watch large Ohio farmers use water from aquifers to irrigate their fields. Instead of depleting aquifers, we’ve chosen to ...

Gravity irrigation was first used extensively in the 1940s. The land had to be leveled so the water could run down every row. If the land was too flat, it would form a lake in the middle and not get ...

PHOENIX — Ronald Rayner has been fascinated with water since he was a boy on his father’s farm in Goodyear. Now a partner on the family farm, A Tumbling-T Ranches, he has found a way to conserve water ...

The sight is not uncommon in California: water moving slowly across farm fields, in broad sheets or through a grid of ditches, propelled only by the pull of gravity. Flood irrigation is a tried and ...

Maintaining a lush, green lawn and thriving landscape that includes shrubbery, flowers and trees requires time, money and often some sweat equity. However, the beauty that results from such effort ...

WASHINGTON, November 14, 2017 – More than 630 Armenian farmers will directly benefit from improved water service delivery, thanks to a US$2 million loan for Additional Financing of the Irrigation ...