Many of Australia's wetlands are anything but what their name suggests. To the contrary, they are drying and dying. In the first project of its kind in Australia, conservationists are assessing 600 ...

An ancient Moorish invention could protect Spain from a future of severe droughts. The irrigation channels run through 15,000 miles of Spain's mountainous provinces. As generational knowledge dwindles ...

Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has announced that irrigation cannels across the province will be lined to provide water saved from seepage to farmers at the tail end. The chief minister ...

Communal watercourses called acequias, some of which date to the 1600s, connect people to their land, neighbors and ancestors. But as the channels dry up, farmers consider more efficient irrigation.

Central Highlands Cotton Growers and Irrigators Association president Ross Burnett relies on the irrigation channels. "With local management we hope to experience greater efficiencies and cost savings ...

NYANYADZI, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In this drought-prone region of eastern Zimbabwe, relying on rain to grow crops no longer makes sense. That’s one reason Joseph Zviuya, a small-scale ...

ISLAMABAD: The destruction of thousands of irrigation channels across the country may become a hurdle for watering important crops in upcoming months. The government and farmers are now using ...

Mal Johnson is not happy. The Cohuna farmer has spent the past few days cleaning up dead fish and plants from an irrigation channel on his property in northern Victoria. The herbicide Acrolein was put ...

Madurai: The Madras High Court has directed district administration officials in Kanyakumari district to take immediate action in removing encroachments made on an irrigation channel. The court’s ...

Trichy: The agricultural engineering department has identified three irrigation channels abandoned for decades near Andanallur in Trichy. In Trichy district, the water resources department (WRD) is ...

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Chief Secretary to file a detailed report on a plea seeking direction to authorities to prevent untreated sewage from being let out into ...