Irrigation management
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Irrigation is the artificial exploitation and distribution of water at project level aiming at application of water at field level to agricultural crops in dry areas or in periods of scarce rainfall to assure or improve crop production.
This article discusses organizational forms and means of management of irrigation water at project (system) level.
Communal maintenance of a diversion dam in a stony river bed, Baluchistan
Slave labor in a cotton plantation
Labor in a sugarcane plantation
Irrigation canals of the Gezira Scheme, Sudan, from space, 1997, with the utility type of management. The water comes from the Blue Nile
National Irrigation Congress
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The National Irrigation Congress was held periodically in the Western United States beginning in 1891 and ending in 1916, by which time the organization had changed its name to International Irrigation Congress. It was a "powerful pressure group."
1893 session of National Irrigation Congress in Los Angeles Opera House
Arid regions of the United States as published in the Los Angeles Times, 1893
William Jennings Bryan
Hiram M. Chittenden