Irrigation Quotes - Page 1

Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan.
Ilya Ilf / Author
Irrigation
Popular Education
Uzbekistan
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On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.'
Ben Affleck / Actor
Irrigation
Lost
Way
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Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.
Debbie Stabenow / United States Senator
Agriculture
Different
Farmers
Gps
Irrigation
Looks
Monitor
Systems
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Globally, the highest number of irrigation projects are in India, and within the country, the highest number is in Maharashtra.
Sharad Pawar / Political Figure
Irrigation
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
Imtiaz Ali / Film Director
Jobs
Accompany
Father
Irrigation
Taste
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In a record time of five-and-a-half months, we completed the prestigious Pattiseema irrigation project, linking two major rivers in the state.
N. Chandrababu Naidu /
Irrigation
Prestigious
Rivers
Completed
Project
Major
Linking
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We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest.
Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers / U.s. Representative
Dams
Irrigation
Pacific
Recreation
Rivers
Transportation
Depend
Northwest
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Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed.
Mike Rounds / Former Governor Of South Dakota
Drought
Engineers
Irrigation
Missouri
Recreation
Threatened
Decisions
Fish
Corps
River
Uses
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Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.
Jim Costa / U.s. Representative
Technology
Higher
Irrigation
Practice
Produce
Smart
Additionally
Advances
Month
Higher Quality
Plants
Practices
Recognize
Serve
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The emphasis of my government is to take advantage from the Chinese experience in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, energy, infrastructure, development, health and high efficiency irrigation.
Asif Ali Zardari / Former President Of Pakistan
Advantage
Chinese
Emphasis
Fields
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Take Advantage
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I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.
Sheri L. Dew / Author
Harvest
Irrigation
Knowing
Law
Reap
Set
Early
Farm
Helped
Learned
Sow
Tube
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Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use in Asia and Latin America in the 1960s.
Arancha Gonzalez /
Asia
Driven
Farmers
Fertilizer
Gains
Irrigation
Latin
Latin America
Productivity
Revolution
Seeds
African
Techniques
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In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser's vision of constructing Aswan's High Dam as a 'national project' for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity.
Ahmed Zewail /
Electricity
Irrigation
Nile
Constructing
Dam
Resounding
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Bharat Nirman was a development programme aimed at stepping up public investment and public-private partnerships in the construction of rural roads, drinking water supply, rural telecommunication, rural housing, and minor irrigation.
Sanjaya Baru /
Construction
Development
Drinking
Drinking Water
Housing
Investment
Irrigation
Water
Minor
Partnerships
Programme
Roads
Rural
Stepping
Supply
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Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up former wilderness.
Mark Shand /
Developing
Elephants
Farming
Former
Human Population
Irrigation
Mines
Nations
Population
Spread
Wilderness
Carved
Contend
Railways
Rapidly
Settlements
Surrounded
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To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world without roads or proper irrigation may be a fantasy based on the finest intentions. But it is a cruel fantasy nonetheless.
Michael Specter / Journalist
Billions
Conventional
Cost
Fantasy
Finest
Irrigation
Produce
Vegetables
World May People
May World People
Feed
Cruel
Intentions
Nonetheless
Organic
Proper
Roads
Suggest
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I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. People in rural places could use the water for irrigation or for drinking.
William Kamkwamba / Inventor
Clean
Clean Water
Drinking
Irrigation
Rural Areas
Afford
Low-Cost
Rural
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As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets.
Moshe Sharett / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Access
Easy Access
Fruit
Irrigation
Livestock
Orange
Property
Stations
Exchange
Houses
Near
Pumping
Villages
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Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world. In some part, this is due to irrigation issues and inhospitable climes. Egypt's dependence on wheat is also partially because for decades it has been cheaper to import wheat, corn, soy and barley from the U.S. than to grow it locally.
Marcus Samuelsson / Chef
Barley
Cheaper
Corn
Decades
Dependence
Egypt
Irrigation
Soy
Wheat
Due
Import
Largest
Locally
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I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Eighty
Irrigation
Lifetime
Sixteen
Texas
Yesterday
Somebody
Money Me Back
Entire
Installing
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A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America's garbage heap, cut the need for irrigation and fossil-fuel fertilizers in agriculture, and improve the nutritional quality of the American diet.
Michael Pollan / Author
Quality
Diet
Garbage
Irrigation
Program
Waste
Cut
Heap
Mandatory
Municipal
Nutritional
Shrink
Yard
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There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland species, require mud, water, and much puddling and nasty work. Rice is the staple food and the wealth of Japan. Its revenues were estimated in rice. Rice is grown almost wherever irrigation is possible.
Isabella Bird / Writer
Irrigation
Japan
Mud
Nasty
Nine
Rice
Species
Wealth
Estimated
Grown
Require
Revenues
Staple
Wherever
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Rome is the capital of Europe; it's as simple as that. You need to see what the Romans did 2,000 years ago. They were so advanced compared to the rest of the world. They showed us how to make roads, toilet seats, how to do irrigation, and more. When you see the Colosseum you won't believe it was built so long ago.
Gino D'acampo /
Irrigation
Seats
Advanced
Compared
Toilet
Roads
Romans
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In future irrigation schemes, water drainage and removal systems should be budgeted from the start of the project. Unfortunately, adding such costs to the original project often will result in a poor return on investment. Society then will have to decide how much it is willing to subsidize new irrigation development.
Norman Borlaug / Agricultural Scientist
Drainage
Investment
Irrigation
Removal
Return
Schemes
Adding
Unfortunately
Subsidize
Systems
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