IRRIGATION CANALS

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: IRRIGATION CANALS

Irrigation canals are an integral part of irrigation water distribution systems across southern Idaho. Credit: Howard Johnson.

Ranchers in the Salmon Model Watershed have combined several irrigation canals into one with a permanent diversion structure and new fish screen to help restore the Salmon River to its former status as prime salmon habitat. Credit: Joel McNee.

People become infected with schistosomiasis when bathing and washing in irrigation canals. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud..

Working on one of the large irrigation canals. Bosque, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Four irrigation canals, Mesa, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject to the obligation to comply with the provisions of the Convention of Mannheim or of the Convention which may be substituted therefor, and to the stipulations of the present Treaty, France shall have on the whole course of the Rhine included between the two extreme points of the French frontiers: (a) the right to take water from the Rhine to feed navigation and irrigation canals (constructed or to be constructed) or for any other purpose, and to execute on the German bank all works necessary for the exercise of this right; (b) the exclusive right to the power derived from works of regulation on the river, subject to the payment to Germany of the value of half the power actually produced, this payment, which will take into account the cost of the works necessary for producing the power, being made either in money or in power and in default of agreement being determined by arbitration. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Egypt

The government says it has spent LE 2.2 billion of a planned total LE 5.7 billion on a massive pumping station and irrigation canals to transport the water. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Danish

vandingskanal (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel), overrislingskanal (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel). (various references)

Dutch

irrigatiekanaal (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel), bevloeiingskanaal (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel). (various references)

Finnish

kastelukanava (catch feeder, channel, duct, irrigation canal, irrigation channel, rill, trench). (various references)

French

canal d'irrigation (irrigation canal, irrigation channel). (various references)

German

Bewässerungskanal (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel), Bewässerungskanäle (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel). (various references)

Greek 

αρδευτική διώρυγα (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel). (various references)

Italian

canale irriguo (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel), canale d'irrigazione (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel), canale di irrigazione (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel), canale di adacquamento (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel). (various references)

Pig Latin

irrigationay analscay

Portuguese

canal de rega (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel), canal de irrigação (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel), canais de irrigação (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel). (various references)

Spanish

canales de riego (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel), canal de riego (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel), canal de irrigación (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel). (various references)

Swedish

bevattningskanal (catch feeder, irrigation canal, irrigation channel). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: rationalising.

-4 letters: intracranial, laciniations.

-5 letters: contrarians, glaciations, intrinsical, irrationals, irrigations, laciniation, logistician, narrational.