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...to one of the island’s poorer districts....
...Right now Alliaria petiolata or garlic mustard is taking over our garden and a lot of the Thames Valley. Many regard it as a weed but I like its breezy pale green foliage and white flowers....
...In the Mission district, I met the founder of a micro-living company that builds hardware and software that enables tenants to press a button and watch their bed rise up and disappear into the ceiling —...
...“We’ve had eaglets and green sandpipers on this bank — no one has ever seen an eaglet in this valley before. Just by making the habitat, stuff happens really quickly,” he says....
...£26 Berry Bros & Rudd John Williams’ vineyards, with their wild flowers and lack of irrigation pipes, are some of Napa Valley’s most distinctive....
...For dry-land communities like those of the Thar Desert, technologies such as land terracing, drip irrigation and mulching can save water and preserve soil quality, sustaining the livestock and crops on which...
...and where every ounce of water is masterfully employed through complex irrigation channels to support small fields of barley and wayward clumps of apple and apricot....
...Irrigation was only introduced to the valley in 1976 but today 95 per cent of our vineyards are irrigated. It’s horse shit to say it’s impossible to dry-farm in Napa Valley.”...
...The vineyards are dispersed across hillsides, in valleys and in coastal areas where limited water forced the industry to modernise water management and replace traditional flooding irrigation with a drip...
...With no rivers or excess irrigation water in the area, the planters are relying on pumping loosely regulated sources of groundwater, said Steve Knell, general manager of the Oakdale Irrigation District....
...“We are working with water districts across the state to find long-term solutions that benefit both local communities and courses.”...
...These could be the worst conditions we’ve ever seen in our area in terms of groundwater,” said Chris Kapheim, general manager of the Alta Irrigation District, which distributes water to farmers in Tulare...
...Tupungato and Tunuyán are the most important departments for fine wine production in the Uco valley, with La Consulta district cool enough to have encouraged growers to plant white wine grapes as well as...
...Cyber City, and even Silicon Valley....
...The co-operative, launched in the 1960s, built irrigation systems, introduced agricultural techniques and invested in equipment, changing the face of a district that had been populated by poor farmers subsisting...
...The operation is focused on the districts of Zhari and Panjwai to the west of the city and Arghandab to the north, where forbidding terrain of drainage canals and orchards makes ideal guerrilla territory...
...It is a scene that has been replicated for centuries in the semi-arid hills and valleys of Syria, where farmers harvest crops, tend fruit trees, and herd sheep and goats....
...ditches, vineyards and narrow village streets of the cultivated valleys....
...In fading light, we rode slowly back along the valley floor to the hotel....
...Sergeant Deacon Holton bounded into the soggy field along with Corporal Clayton Bowman and other Marines, running and slipping through knee-deep mud saturated from recent irrigation....
...Brihan Mumbai Storm Water Drainage Project (BRIMSTOWA) To address the problem of flooding in Mumbai, Brihan Mumbai Storm Water Drainage Project (BRIMSTOWA) was initiated in 2007....
...“Then 50km away will be forgotten districts whose farms have a third or a quarter of their yield.”...
...(Maria says water for irrigation was cut off last year to lower the value of farmland in her district.)...
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