Irrigation for agriculture is the largest use of fresh water around the globe, but precise records and maps of when and where water is applied by farmers are difficult to locate. Now a team of ...

Previously, scientists have suggested that agricultural irrigation affects mean climate in several regions of the world. New evidence now shows that this cooling influence is even more pronounced when ...

Amman, June 24 (Petra) -- The Jordan Valley Authority (JVA) has inaugurated a new automated irrigation and fertigation station operated by Medjool Village Company for agricultural lands in the ...

Agricultural irrigation sustains food production and climate adaptation but intensifies energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Incorporating irrigation into the power grid’s demand-side response ...

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya — The provincial government here is moving materials, machines and training into farming communities, assembling what officials describe as a layered defense against El Niño, ...

The EU is taking new measures to reduce the risk of shortages of water for irrigating crops. The EU ambassadors of the member states today endorsed the provisional agreement which had been found with ...

The EU is taking new measures to reduce the risk of shortages of water for irrigating crops. The Council today adopted by written procedure a regulation which will facilitate the use of treated urban ...

Morocco is ranked among the top 25 most water-stressed countries in the world. Over the past two decades, the Moroccan government focused and invested on ways to make the best use of the limited water ...

The need to flip on electric pumps to irrigate alfalfa fields came early this season for Cokeville-area farmers and ranchers ...

WAYZATA, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cargill is partnering with Australian company Goanna Ag on a new pilot project focused on advancing irrigation efficiency on cotton fields in the Mississippi Delta.