Farmers depend heavily on monsoon rains to irrigate their land.
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Because of the arid climate, Vittoria growers are permitted to irrigate.
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Villagers didn't have enough to drink or to irrigate new fields.
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Steve Griffith helps irrigate his father's corn field in Fort Morgan, Colorado.
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Farmers have been prohibited from drawing water from reservoirs to irrigate their crops.
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But the fresh water often wouldn't arrive until April, too late to irrigate.
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Ancient Rome had little ability to store grain for long periods or irrigate crops.
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Mr. Kurth, like many farmers in New England, does not always have to irrigate.
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After the grapes have been picked, the vineyard needs power to process them and irrigate.
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Irrigate a crop, and the water "used" by the plants is converted to water vapour.
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Many growers irrigate with water straight from streams or wells without testing it for pathogens.
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In the countryside, lack of power has prevented farmers from pumping water to irrigate fields.
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A continuing drought will lead to a reduction in the acreage we can reliably irrigate.
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The rain the forest generates also helps fill reservoirs for major cities and irrigate crops.
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A contentious issue Farmers in both states rely on the Cauvery to irrigate their lands.
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When this dam was not built, then the flowing water could irrigate 500,000 acres of land.
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With almost no water available, Varani managed to adequately irrigate just 22003 hectares out of 22006.
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It has enabled more than 240 farmers to irrigate about 21 hectares (250 acres) of crops.
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The first is almost complete - a diversion of the São Francisco river meant to irrigate crops.
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Because we irrigate our fields, to make sure our crops get the right amount of water.
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They were trying to help by drilling wells or working on pumping stations to irrigate crops.
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Many sustainable golf communities today use recycled wastewater to irrigate their courses and other green areas.
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We irrigate vast tracts of land, providing locusts with the carbohydrate-rich foods they (and we) love.
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Let's just say we irrigate the soul by means of each other, or we die before our time.
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They have no electric light, rely on kerosene and diesel for power, and struggle to irrigate their crops.
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Most of them irrigate their crops with nothing but the rain, which falls hardest between June and September.
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They also carve out channels in the Earth, creating rivers and lakes with which to irrigate that soil.
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Threatened by severe drought, the farmers draw up a petition to be allowed to irrigate their fields longer.
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No need to mow or irrigate — although you wouldn't want to run across one of these yards barefoot.
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The snowmelt will trickle down to irrigate crops, fill glasses and help sustain life in an arid state.
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The roof garden also contains water tanks to store rainwater, used to flush the toilets and irrigate the plants.
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Normally, aquifers supply about 40% of the state's water consumption, the bulk of it being used to irrigate crops.
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He could not cover the cost of diesel to irrigate his land, so he bought a solar-powered pump.
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Animals may run wild through even fenced fields -- or defecate in rivers and lakes used to irrigate nearby farms.
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Ms. Holmes and her father still plant chiles, but only on about 80 acres of the 1,200 they irrigate.
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The occasional green pasture is a sign of a farmer battling the elements, and probably wealthy enough to irrigate.
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In Lima, Peru, where little rain falls, a community project turns fog into water to irrigate 50 household gardens.
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Americans use about 7 billion gallons of water a day, a third of all residential water consumption, to irrigate.
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"They simply can't afford the fuel it takes to irrigate in the summer season, when it's very hot," Taylor said.
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The pump that draws water from a nearby river to irrigate his 35-hectare farm is on the blink again.
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Other vinegrowers in Crete who cannot plant higher up could irrigate their vines to help slow their growth, she said.
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The same strain of E. coli that sickened them was detected in a Yuma canal used to irrigate some crops.
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Once complete, the dam will irrigate 90,19973 hectares of rice paddy, giving farmers two harvests a year instead of one.
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This lowered blood flow, but the clamp had to be removed every few minutes to irrigate the brain tissue downstream.
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It had deployed emergency response teams and 20 water pumps to irrigate fields in the hardest-hit areas, it said.
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The blue water footprint is the amount of water that's extracted from reservoirs, surface water and groundwater to irrigate fields.
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As it died, it made a final sacrifice, turning its blood into a canal that would irrigate the land forever.
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Many smaller growers, some tending fields that are 100 years old, don't irrigate, but that expensive step may become necessary.
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"In France irrigation is forbidden -- you cannot irrigate grape vines," says Tod Mostero, viticulturist at Dominus Estate in California's Napa Valley.
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As the river flows south, water is used to irrigate crops like cotton and peanuts in the state's large agriculture industry.
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But in 2011, the amoeba killed two people in Louisiana who used tap water in neti pots to irrigate their sinuses.
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This enclosure would protect and irrigate the fungi growing on the three rods while still exposing them to nutritious cosmic radiation.
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Some fields at Siena Farms sit empty because there is no way to irrigate and there is uncertainty about the forecast.
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The community strictly regulated water use, with each household allowed half an hour of supply a week to irrigate their fields.
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This proposal costs around $60 million and would mean less upkeep for the farmers using the water to irrigate their crops.
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We&aposre going to reduce the puffiness of the face, and then also we&aposre going to irrigate your cells. Right.
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And until the weather cools off, it also might be smart to skip using a neti pot to irrigate your sinuses.
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A particularly bad drought would have made it difficult for the Maya to collect enough drinking water and to irrigate their crops.
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They are predicting an even bigger harvest next year, after discovering the water supply is sufficient to irrigate additional farmland, she said.
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For millenniums, the Euphrates has given farmers in the village of Zour Maghar water to irrigate fields of wheat, eggplant and sunflowers.
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"Infections have also been reported when people irrigate their sinuses using contaminated tap or faucet water," Vugia told Reuters Health by email.
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There's also the million-gallon water tank that allows museum staff to irrigate a large area in case of a fire, Lapin said.
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Rose Ibalu, a single-parent refugee from South Sudan, uses waste water to irrigate the kale and okra she plants in her garden.
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In addition to requiring water to grow, farmers need water to irrigate their fields during freezing conditions in order to prevent frost damage.
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If farmers can irrigate only when necessary, and avoid excessive pesticide use, they should be able to save money and boost their output.
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Hay from California is generally grown in the desert or in the Central Valley using groundwater that's pumped in to irrigate the field.
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Mr. Carlson said he feared that a leak in the pipeline would imperil the groundwater he uses to drink and irrigate his crops.
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"We have advised Chinese farmers, if you jump in the paddy and you land and you can see your footprints, don't irrigate," says Davies.
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Spiritual and emotional wellness will be key considerations—not just knowing how to irrigate crops in a place where it could rain liquid methane.
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The state of Punjab, for instance, has openly defied the Supreme Court's order to open a canal that will irrigate parts of neighbouring Haryana.
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The contaminated water was used to irrigate leafy greens on the farm, and then shipped to stores across the country and purchased by consumers.
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Then (3) the waste water from the aquaculture, which is rich in organic nutrients, is used to irrigate a salt-tolerant crop of Salicornia.
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But a half-hour's drive away, fertile farms pump water from deep underground to irrigate fields that grow broccoli and lettuce for American supermarkets.
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Both sides hail from Daku, a small farming village north of Kabul where channels of water irrigate ancient grape vines and apple orchards abound.
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The retained water then can be used to irrigate crops using what Gharti Chhetri called "modern methods of irrigation, such as sprinkle and drip".
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Village barbers also can earn a living shaving people using solar-powered shavers, and farmers can irrigate their crops with solar pumps, he said.
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Fifteen years ago, those wells and aquifers started running dry after the Saudis had tapped them to excess to irrigate wheat fields in desert.
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That suggests the dirty water may have been used to irrigate growing fields — but officials stopped short of saying they knew that for sure.
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She rejects the company's promise to build reservoirs to replace the lakes that many people downriver rely on for water to irrigate their crops.
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There was "surplus land," because farmers didn't have enough water to irrigate crops, and economic stagnation meant the land was no longer as valuable.
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We also use tons of water to irrigate grass — outside water makes up to three-quarters of residential water use, according to the study.
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This could cripple livelihoods across the predominantly agricultural country, where 80% of water is used to irrigate thirsty crops such as sugar cane and rice.
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Two decades ago, Kothapally faced an acute water crisis, with little available to irrigate farms or to drink and women walking miles to fetch water.
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"In areas where rains have failed, farmers who depend mainly on rainwater to irrigate their crops have no, or very low, crop yields," they wrote.
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Uzbekistan's answer to that particular problem was to divert the freshwater sources that fed into the Aral Sea in order to irrigate their cotton crops.
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Farmers complain the water will go first to thirsty urban centers for human consumption before it can be used to irrigate agriculture or water cattle.
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JUMLA, Nepal (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bhadri Sarki used to walk for more than an hour to fetch enough water to irrigate just one apple tree.
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Neti pots are used to pour saline into one nostril and out of the other to irrigate the sinuses, usually to fight allergies or infections.
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Last month, President Trump signed a memo in California relaxing regulations that have limited the flow of water to irrigate the Central Valley's big farms.
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Water from the river is used to irrigate nearby vegetable fields, she said, adding that Tanzania has virtually no safe disposal systems for industrial waste.
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In many regions, wastewater runoffs from mines are used directly to irrigate farmland and its main river, the Xiang, is one of China's most polluted.
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Added to this is that India is predominantly an agricultural country, with 80% of its water used to irrigate thirsty crops such as sugarcane and rice.
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The dam would supply enough water to irrigate 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) of parched land around it, including Kshirsagar's 2.5-hectare family farm in Kondhane village.
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The island is working to tackle the situation by reducing consumption, publishing a monthly report on water reserves, and using untreated water to irrigate golf courses.
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And the less river water there is, the more farmers extract to irrigate their crops, taking valuable water away from those living down-river, he added.
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Like the asses they irrigate, douches come in all shapes and sizes, from readily available Fleet brand saline bottles to complicated shower contraptions for seasoned vets.
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Hispanic settlers founded the remote settlement in the 1840s; to this day, residents still irrigate their fields with water from a tributary of the Rio Grande.
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In the indoor farms I visited, the brain work of farming—when to plant, irrigate, fertilize, and harvest—had been automated, but not the grunt work.
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"Some water had to become contaminated and then used to irrigate the crops that become salad," said Martin Bucknavage, a Pennsylvania State University food safety expert.
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Pradan taught the villagers how to conserve water and irrigate through a network of pipes so they could grow two crops each year rather than one.
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Now she has cut her water bill by almost a third, and has enough for a shower and a toilet – and even to irrigate her vegetables.
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The Bisse de Clavau was built in 1453 to irrigate the terraced vineyards in the region, which is the driest and hottest in all of Switzerland.
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The country&aposs leaders also devised a plan a decade ago to help saffron growers combat drought, with a $57 million proposal to irrigate the land.
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Casey Cox, a family farmer in Georgia who grows sweet corn, relies on this water to irrigate her 2,400 acres, as do many other Georgia farmers.
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The July-September rains irrigate nearly half of India's farmlands, bringing relief to millions of poor farmers who till small plots of land to sustain their families.
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A pump that used to irrigate it was stolen two years ago and lights, which once allowed teams to practice at night, have been out for years.
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Chaves said his vote will be based on the billions of dollars in investment to irrigate local farms with waters from the transfer of the Sao Francisco River.
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Many farmers would like not to till, which they know keeps carbon from being released into the atmosphere, but they say they would then need to irrigate more.
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Image: WikimediaFile this under bad news for humanity's climate ambitions: The dams and reservoirs we use to harness 'clean' hydroelectric power and irrigate our crops apparently emit carbon.
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With this and 23 similar projects already running in Chimanimani, Chipinge and Buhera districts, the program plans to irrigate more than 100 hectares (about 250 acres) of farmland.
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The property includes a 60-by-20-foot swimming pool, a lagoon used to irrigate the land, a gardening shed and a storage building for cars or machinery.
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The Mursi had been dependent on the floodwaters of the Omo River to irrigate and fertilize their crops, supplemented by cattle and goat herding, as well as hunting.
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The Nabateans, nomadic Arab peoples dating to the fourth century B.C., used runoff and built small stone dams to divert water to irrigate crops and grow wine grapes.
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A bisse (rhymes with peace) is a narrow (two- to six-foot wide) canal that brings water from high-altitude rivers across mountains to irrigate pastures and vineyards.
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Toward the end of the journey it gathers in a makeshift collection pool and much is used to irrigate date trees, which have a high tolerance for pollutants.
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"We have seen a lot of cases in the Karakorum and western Himalayas where people are already having problems getting enough fresh water to irrigate their farmlands," said Shrestha.
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An E. coli–contaminated sample was collected from an agricultural reservoir used to irrigate the crops on the farm, the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday.
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Winemaker Alain Maufras had to leave some 300-year-old vines to die in Europe's heatwaves this summer because his application to irrigate his fields was denied, NPR reports.
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"Earlier I used to walk about 20 minutes to carry water and it is impossible to farm on a larger scale carrying water to irrigate each plant," she said.
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The runoff is used to irrigate the vegetation around the building, and by storing much of it, flooding will be reduced in the low-lying West End neighborhood nearby.
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Nazim Jan, the commander of the local police unit in the village, confirmed that his forces had been informed by the farmers that they were going out to irrigate.
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Combined, these farms would spark a twofold increase in rainfall, which in turn would stimulate vegetation growth, creating a positive feedback loop that could irrigate this notoriously arid region.
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Ask Real Estate Co-op shareholders have to pay for common elements like water, but what happens when one of them is using it to irrigate a private oasis?
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This has led to the widespread contamination of the underground wells which irrigate the farmland in the Naples region, which provides vegetables for much of Italy's center and south.
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"Using a very hot iron for seven seconds, I burned the skin and blood vessels which irrigate the horn bud, so it won't grow," Surer said as he applied disinfectant.
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For farmers, drone-gathered data yields heat maps and other visualizations that can guide them to irrigate only where moisture is needed, or apply pesticides, fertilizers or herbicides precisely too.
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Instead of keeping Lake Okeechobee low, the state allowed the lake to fill up to ensure there was ample water to irrigate farms throughout what is normally a dry winter.
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To irrigate his growing acreage, he ran a hose from a fire hydrant, watering at dawn and dusk when he was less likely to be discovered by a meter reader.
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They had concluded it was cheaper to use Arizona land and water to grow hay, then ship it home, than it was to bring water in to irrigate Saudi farmland.
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He doesn't irrigate at all, nor does he plow, till or break the ground in any way, because he does not want to disturb the microbial life of the soil.
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The river levels are expected to rise again as summer approaches and the dam releases to irrigate crops in and around Eagle Pass and to provide electricity for the town.
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The group's chief lobbying goal was to lift federal environmental protections to allow California's fickle water supply to be used consistently to irrigate Central Valley almond, pistachio and cotton farms.
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In many countries, farmers tap into groundwater to irrigate their crops, particularly during periods of limited rainfall, and experts warn that irrigation is contributing to water shortages in drought-prone regions.
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Officials say the project will irrigate vast swathes of drought-prone land in Bundelkhand region and bring drinking water to more than 1.3 million people in one of India's least developed areas.
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"It makes no technological or economic sense [for Ethiopia] to irrigate land with that water," as it would involve pumping it back upstream, says Kenneth Strzepek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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He is hoping to earn extra income from selling fresh, farmed fish from the world's largest and hottest desert and use the water to irrigate his olive and date trees and vegetables.
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The off-grid power system, with 2014.9 solar panels that provide nearly 403 kilowatts of reliable power, has made it possible to effectively irrigate crops, boosting farming yields and fuelling economic growth.
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In one, farmers and local officials in a district near Tashkent, the capital, were made to stand in a watery ditch, heads bowed, to show contrition for failing to irrigate wheat fields properly.
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GRIFFITH/BAROSSA, Australia (Reuters) - If Australia's big dry has a silver lining, it'll be worth cellaring, according to vintners, who are scrambling to irrigate vines while preparing for a smaller but sweeter vintage.
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Scientists said the steam clouds at the spots where lava entered the ocean were laced with hydrochloric acid and fine glass particles that can irrigate the skin and eyes and cause breathing problems.
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Because pumping water requires energy, helping small-scale farmers get access to clean renewable energy, such as solar or wind power, will also be key to helping them afford to irrigate, Mekonnen said.
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"The initial first aid in these cases is usually to irrigate the eye or to have the child drink tap water to dilute and wash the detergent out of the throat," Dart advised.
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But that has changed as development, drought, overuse and a drier, warming climate threaten the Colorado River, the source of the water they drink and use to irrigate the fields where they work.
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The Aral was nearly destroyed as a result of the Soviet Union's plan to boost cotton production by diverting Syr Darya and Amu Darya, the two rivers feeding it, to irrigate the desert.
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Their lives would be improved by even modest amounts of electricity—and transformed by reliable electricity from a grid, which would allow them to irrigate crops, start businesses and perhaps get jobs in factories.
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So far, the agencies have only released one finding: That the same E. coli strain found in sickened people across the country was also in Arizona's canal water, which is used to irrigate crops.
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The correct use of weather and soil data can give insights into when and how much to irrigate, or how to increase crop yield while reducing the use of pesticide and fertilizer, Gillespie explains.
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Citing high temperatures and insufficient rains, Dhafer Abdalla, an adviser to Iraq&aposs Ministry of Water Resources, told The Associated Press that the country has only enough water to irrigate half its farmland this summer.
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He runs a maize farm outside Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, but because of poor rains at the start of the season, he was forced to purchase water to irrigate his crop - something he can ill afford.
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Several palm oil companies have faced penalties for letting their concessions burn and the government has set up a new anti-fire agency to irrigate dry peatlands, where nearly half the blazes occurred last year.
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A title deed would also give him security to invest in a well to irrigate his cassava, maize and cashew nut fields and save his wife a lengthy trek into the forest to fetch water.
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Farmer Alex Babu Kitheka, 39, said the biodiesel pump allowed him to irrigate a larger portion of his one-acre plot, where he grows a variety of vegetables including maize, tomatoes, spinach and sweet potatoes.
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The contaminated water was used to irrigate crops on just the one farm, and doesn't seem to explain all of the illnesses that are associated with the current outbreak, which is still being investigated, Ostroff said.
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Experts say better forecasting could help India raise its farm output by nearly 15 percent, by helping farmers tweak the best time to sow, irrigate or apply fertilizer, and, if rains fail, plan state-wide measures.
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The Hix Island House, on the other hand, is powered by solar panels, collects rainwater in cisterns, heats water with the sun, and uses runoff from sinks and showers to irrigate fruit trees on the property.
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Even before the corruption charges emerged last year, though, the residents of Mr. Padrés's desert state were shocked to learn that he had built an illegal dam on his ranch to irrigate his commercial walnut orchard.
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How fast it does so could have devastating consequences for farmers who have depended on the Nile for millennia to irrigate strategic crops for Egypt's 96 million people, expected to grow to 63 million by 2030.
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Critics fear the new plan, which would allow large quantities of water to be diverted from the San Francisco Bay Delta to the Central Valley in order to irrigate farmland, would ultimately harm the threatened fish species.
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Critics fear the new plan, which would allow large quantities of water to be diverted from the San Francisco Bay Delta to the Central Valley in order to irrigate farmland, would ultimately harm the threatened fish species.
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One bit of good news this summer is the heavy winter rains put the final nail in the coffin for the state's six-year drought and means there's plenty of water for farmers to irrigate their crops.
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Formerly a cattle ranch, Page Springs Cellars sits along an aquifer, and the resulting artesian springs, which flow at a rate of 21975,000 gallons per minute, help irrigate the vineyards and wash the machines in the cellar.
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But President Ashraf Ghani, determined to generate economic growth, made a priority of completing the Salma dam in Herat Province, and has ordered work on another dam at Bakhshabad, to irrigate the vast western province of Farah.
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Experts say better forecasting could help India raise its farm output by nearly 20153 percent, by helping farmers tweak the best time to sow, irrigate or apply fertilizer to crops and if rains fail plan state-wide measures.
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With recycled rainwater to irrigate the gardens and energy-harvesting heat pumps, the mosque says it produces close to zero carbon emissions and boasts better green credentials than the thousands of other mosques that are scattered across Europe.
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In the meantime, those who enjoy the fish and wildlife or rely on the river to irrigate their fields face the reality that nobody knows the long-term consequences of all the harmful metals spread along the riverbed.
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"They didn't want us to have the water to grow crops for food," said Joshua Moore, who obtained a water permit in 2012 to irrigate about 72 acres near Ginnie Springs where he grows watermelon and other crops.
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As a lifelong Zionist, he was acutely conscious of the capacity of the Jews to develop and irrigate Mandatory Palestine, but also the effect that Jewish purchase of Arab land might have on the rest of the population.
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Around the world, glaciers in the mountains are receding quickly, affecting the availability of water for millions of people who depend on meltwater downstream to supply drinking water, irrigate agricultural land and produce electricity through dams and hydropower.
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The downpours top up the aquifers that slake the thirst of tens of millions of people in Brazil's cities and irrigate the farmlands that feed them, even those thousands of miles away and far from the rainforest itself.
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This has created some strange and peculiar situations: And here's a key fact to consider against this backdrop: The Resnicks aren't just pumping to irrigate their fruit and nut trees—they're also in the business of farming water itself.
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Severe and moderate salinity levels, caused by the disposal of salty water from mines, irrigation systems and homes, affect one in 10 rivers on the three continents, making it harder for poor farmers to irrigate their crops, it said.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A movie premiering in Berlin tells the true story of a young boy from a famine-stricken village in Malawi who studies books about energy then builds a wind turbine that enables farmers to irrigate their land.
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Working near the Dead Sea on land that still evokes its biblical past, Mr. Atiyat, 225, grew animated when asked about a 2000-foot bank of solar panels, whose power draws water from deep underground to irrigate the grove.
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More than 2000 other residents of Huang's village were poisoned as early as the 2100s as a lead-zinc mine funneled wastewater for years into a ditch that locals used to irrigate their fields of cassava and sugar cane.
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KITUI, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kenyan farmer Abel Mutie Mathoka thought it must be a joke when he was told he could irrigate his drought-hit crops more cheaply, cleanly and efficiently using a pump fueled by cotton waste.
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In the case of the RainMachine, the researchers found that they could spoof the weather forecast that the server sends to the RainMachine, tricking it into believing the weather is hot and arid and thus triggering it to irrigate.
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The skyline-altering building will be a high-tech marvel when it opens next year, with 16 fast, double-decker elevators, vast walls of dynamic LED lighting for that Blade Runner vibe, and a water reclamation system to irrigate its landscaping.
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It will mean power for people in real need of it — for workers who have no light to function with at night, for students with no internet to mine for information, for farmers without the energy to wash or irrigate crops.
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Kirkpatrick, whose congressional district includes part of the Navajo Nation, has also expressed outrage at the EPA's response, particularly the slow process to compensate farmers who lost crops because they were afraid to irrigate them with water from the river.
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In rural areas, one key solution is rainwater harvesting and storage systems to tide communities over in a drought and provide water to irrigate crops, such as a U.N.-backed program called "1 million cisterns for the Sahel" in West Africa.
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Up by the driver's seat, the company had outfitted its Pellenc harvesters with an iPad, which displays geo-referenced maps that route drivers to the correct part of the field where they need to pick fruit, irrigate or apply fertilizers.
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Measures taken in sponge cities include covering buildings with green roofs and facades, and creating urban wetlands and trenches to filter run-off water that can be used to replenish aquifers, irrigate gardens and urban farms, flush toilets and clean homes.
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"Partial drought and low water levels of the Kafue River resulted in less water available to irrigate sugar cane estates," Gavin Dalgleish, the managing director of Illovo Group, which ownes Zambia Sugar, said at the company's annual meeting in June.
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The drill bit chattered as it turned bone into dust, which then started to char and blacken, so I asked my assistant to irrigate some water where I was drilling, both to cool things down and to improve my visibility.
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There will also be sprinklers embedded in the grass to irrigate the fairways, miles of spray hoses used by maintenance crews and, according to the weather forecast, rain showers that might create temporary puddles in the parking lots and walkways.
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With little experience beyond having watered tree nursery beds at the institute, Mohammed went to work planting an initial 2200,23 seedling trees, hiring local young men to help her carry water from a nearby stream to irrigate the young plants.
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Using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on its Terra satellite to document the changes, NASA's images show the dramatic consequences of the Soviet Union's 1960 water diversion project to irrigate the arid earth in the nearby plains of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
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Around $10 per visitor – about the cost of offsetting round-trip air travel from Europe, UNDP officials said – could pay for argan tree seedlings and water to irrigate them, or support traditional beekeeping in the hills and the pollination services the bees provide.
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If the experiment works, transporting treated wastewater through the arid Baja de California peninsula to the Valle de Guadalupe, south of Tijuana, to irrigate the area's upscale vineyards could be an option for winegrowers competing with nearby towns for scarce water supplies.
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Another would build a small, solar-powered sewage-treatment plant for about 5,000 homes near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, selling the treated but unpotable end product to nearby farmers, whose groundwater has become too salty to irrigate their crops.
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For example, the researchers suggest that the brine could be used to irrigate plants that are tolerant of salt water, or generate electricity, or it could be mined for a variety of minerals and metals such as magnesium, gypsum, calcium, lithium, potassium and even uranium.
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"In Niger it doesn't rain very much, but when it does rain it is quite intense, so we need to find a way of harvesting all of that water so we can irrigate and grow for a longer period," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Because the new states required huge amounts of manual work to irrigate the cereal crops, they also required forms of forced labor, including slavery; because the easiest way to find slaves was to capture them, the states had a new propensity for waging war.
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One was that the Iranian hackers had confused the structure with another named Bowman — the Arthur R. Bowman Dam on the Crooked River in Oregon, which is 5 feet tall and 22 feet long, and is used to irrigate a large swath of local farms.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday moved to weaken protections for a threatened California fish, a change that would allow large amounts of water to be diverted from the San Francisco Bay Delta to irrigate arid farmland and could harm the region's fragile ecosystem.
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In brightly lighted climate-controlled rooms at Ontario's Niagara College, protected by fences and layers of locked doors, are 50 cannabis clones that students will learn to irrigate, feed, protect, track with bar codes, test for chemical content, harvest and cure, said program coordinator Bill MacDonald.
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From weather patterns to soil nutrient levels, even insect life and plant growth records, agricultural data can be used to determine not only which crops to plant, but also when to do it, where to do it, how to harvest and even how much to irrigate.
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We've already overpumped the aquifers that lie beneath most of the world's breadbaskets; without the means to irrigate, we may encounter a repeat of the nineteen-thirties, when droughts and deep plowing led to the Dust Bowl—this time with no way of fixing the problem.
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Among other things, the law required the FDA to issue new industry record-keeping rules that mandate traceability, so the agency can quickly trace the source of food-borne illness outbreaks and strong standards to ensure that the water used to irrigate crops is safe and sanitary.
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In Lodi, north of the state capital, Ann Groves Lloyd is campaigning for the State Assembly with a tongue-in-cheek ad in which she tries to water her cows with plastic bottles and irrigate her fields with a water cooler strapped to a John Deere tractor.
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An article on Monday about an Interior Department official who has pressed scientists to include misleading climate language in their work misstated the month when President Trump signed a memo relaxing regulations that have limited the flow of water to irrigate farms in California's Central Valley.
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It would irrigate in a single stroke Brooklyn's largest subway desert and — if built just below street grade using traditional "cut and cover" construction techniques — could be realized for a mere fraction of the $4.45 billion that Phase I of the Second Avenue Subway cost taxpayers.
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Because most of the food we eat is primarily water, if farmers use the liquid compost, that means that they don't have to irrigate as heavily, reducing the need to tap overtaxed water supplies while at the same time providing a nutrient-rich, organic fertilizer for the soil.
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To irrigate his crop, the farmer relies on water from the nearby Mignano dam, a small structure that supplies his agricultural district with water from the Arda River, a tributary of the Po. Last month, however, the dam was closed for the first time in its 240-year history.
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Mr. Harder said he saw a wall of flame 773 to 30 feet high descending a hillside toward his property, embers whipping toward him, and formed a bucket brigade with six other people, working through the night, scooping water from a 10,000-gallon tank meant to irrigate his vines.
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This would offer the chance to feed their families, put an end to their immediate suffering and then slowly – over time – have the chance to think about the future: how to find or create employment, irrigate land, and return to the normalcy enjoyed by millions of other Africans in neighboring countries.
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Just as a highway provides vital connections between cities, bringing goods and people from place to place, a river is an artery fundamental to the health of a community — aside from its importance as a wildlife habitat, we depend on it to supply drinking water, irrigate farms or fuel breweries.
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But in the lawsuit filed Tuesday, the Navajo Nation alleges that the EPA has failed to properly remediate the disaster and compensate the thousands of farmers who rely on the San Juan River, which flows from the Animas through New Mexico and Utah, to irrigate their crops and sustain their cattle and sheep.
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Fifteen miles from my hotel is the border with Mexico, a boundary now marked by barbed wire that loops around the edges of the All-American Canal, an elaborate, 80-mile long aqueduct that diverts water from Colorado to irrigate farmland that would otherwise get around three inches of rain per year.
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The whales would excessively bite on the corners of the concrete tanks and peel off the blue paint, causing their teeth to wear down to the point where we, the trainers, had to manually drill a hole in the tooth and then invasively irrigate this hole with a hydrogen peroxide solution, using a metal catheter.
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It stars a young Omar Sharif (given this name by Chahine) as Ahmed, an engineer who returns from abroad and helps farmers properly irrigate their crops, in defiance of the powerful local landowner who exploits the Nile, all while he falls in love with the rich man's daughter, Amal (played by Egyptian icon Faten Hamama).
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