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irrigation

[ US /ˌɪɹəˈɡeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ˌɪɹɪɡˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc
  2. (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution

How To Use irrigation In A Sentence

  • In fact, up to the mid-1950s the Ministry went by the name of Irrigation, with none other than the practitioner of apartheid baaskap, J G Strijdom, the responsible Minister. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • She shaped the space with graceful curves, amended the soil with compost, and installed drip irrigation.
  • Human activities, such as land-use change, water storage, interbasin transfers, and irrigation and drainage, influence the hydrological cycle in many river basins (see Chapter 4) [165]. Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 6
  • Living on an irrigation property on the banks of the Murray River, Ray's childhood was spent on the farm helping with flood irrigation, fencing, harvesting lucerne, shearing and crutching.
  • This wrecked flood control, municipal and industrial water storage, irrigation and hydroelectric power.
  • Rice cultivation, which is dependent on the vagaries of weather and on complex systems of irrigation, requires cooperative labor.
  • That meant withholding some of the farmers' irrigation water and sending it downriver - at least until the drought broke.
  • Objective To investigate the curative effect of tube placement and drug irrigation in the auditory tube under nasoscope in the treatment of secretory otitis media(SOM).
  • Bangladeshi water engineers say that Indian barrages, canals, reservoirs and irrigation schemes are slowly strangling the country and are stopping its development.
  • It soon was apparent that what showed as paths on the map were actually berms running beside irrigation canals.
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