irrigate
I use drip irrigation on a timer for part of my garden.
Hundreds of wells that provide irrigation to farmers have been shut down.
Green roofs may need irrigation during a hot summer.

Examples of irrigation

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The other ten reported less frequent irrigation (between 1 and 6 times a month).
The farmers provided various suggestions for possible improvements in the distribution of available irrigation water.
Repeated failures of this nature may ultimately result in decay of the irrigation system and subsequent decline of the local economy.
As regards making irrigation water available to farmers where and when it was wanted, the spread of the bamboo tubewell was a positive story.
Input prices include the irrigation variable and fixed costs, and other fixed production costs.
This paper builds upon the theoretical framework from the precision irrigation literature to study the roles of information, institutions, and price incentives in irrigated agriculture.
A low precision irrigation practice is inflexible and does not allow the farmer to adjust water applications in response to changing conditions.
The increase in precision could be from an improvement in weather information, irrigation practices, or both.
Equivalently, a given increase in public information will improve the irrigation efficiency of higher efficiency application systems more than those with lower precision.
However, when the benefits from infrastructure, irrigation, and water management are also included, the result somewhat changes.
However, in the simulations t is still used because we believe that collective activities are essential in providing irrigation services.
Milk production dominates in the valley floors where access to irrigation allows for cultivation of permanent pastures.
They were either elected or selected by the water users to supervise all activities concerning irrigation and to enforce rules.
In 1958, the national irrigation system was extended to the village.
It was also reflected through their role on these irrigation systems after the construction of a new weir.
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