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    Water Management

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    THEME Future wars are likely to stem from a desire to control sufficient water resources. The concept of trinity revolves around water resources, water management and utilization. Water management remains pivotal to this all important source of national survival and development. The Government’s “Water Vision” is a step in the same direction. Pakistan has recently embarked upon a road of economic prosperity. The need for energy in next decade will increase manifold. Similarly, the agricultural

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    Ever since the early nineteenth century until today, the California water crisis has been an issue that is yet to be resolved. As one of the largest states with a population of over thirty million (Class Discussion); water consumption is in high demand. "From the very beginning, California was a state with tremendous agricultural potential"(Chan, S., and Olin, S. Pg 136). A similarity from both the California of the early 1800 's and today is that water is an expensive and important resource being

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    Executive Summary Water irrigation and management system I use in this system new technology

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    Yuma Project

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    The Biggest Project in Yuma. Irrigation is the process by which a water supply is brought to the land or crops to aid its growth, and to do so channels are usually used. The yuma project was designed to irrigate Yuma County Arizona And part of California and thus to exploit to the maximum the agricultural activities of the place using as main source of water the Colorado River. The project began in the year of 1903 and with the a series of geographic, environmental and logistical challenges

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    persisted for several years prior and showed no signs of relief in 2015. In an attempt to hold the State’s fragile water project together, a desperate State Water Resources Control Board (SWCRB) did something so extraordinary that it caused several irrigation districts in the Bay Area to essentially operate outside the law, resulting in subsequent court proceedings that established new case law. In California, water rights are sacred. Especially sacred are water rights that were appropriated prior

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    the plants. Here our objective is to design automated polyhouse. The aim and objective of this project is to design and implement an cost effective and time efficient automatic pesticide distribution system. In this we will develop a mobile based irrigation control system .Here we will use the idea of coffeemaker which mix up two or more pesticide and distribute among crops in polyhouse using drip system. Keywords:Microcontroller, Microprocessor,

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    are now being forced to use significantly less land then before, but also ditch old irrigation techniques and implement new techniques to better conserve water; maximizing production as much as possible in order to combat the drought. California is the leading state in agricultural production; however, the state has taken a blow from this four-year drought. Farmers have been forced to re-evaluate their irrigation systems and make necessary changes to conserve water. In order to judge the agricultural

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    order for farming to be sustainable more has to be grown with less. Water conservation can be addressed in developing countries by simply embracing modern farming methods. In developed countries more money will have to be invested into water saving irrigation methods. There was a time when you didn’t shut the water off when you brushed your teeth and now it is habit to shut the water off to save that little bit of water. The same spirit will have to implemented in farming simple methods can be used to

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    increasing the water needs on these areas. Moreover, agriculture is another main reason why water is running scarce due to the fact that over 70% of fresh water is used for it and more than 60% of that water is lost due to the improper methods of irrigation which causes water to leak. Under ground water sources are also being over used to suffice agriculture; which has depleted the water resources for some countries. “Thirsty crops” like cotton, sugar cane and rice have led to higher water consumption

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    proactively the irrigation facilities and the critical areas of dykes. In order to cope with inundation, local residents have to work together to dredge the small channels and to upgrade the paddy field embankments when they get the heavy rain forecast. They have stored fresh water and changed in their water use to cope with potential floods, storm, inundation and drought. In short, the water-related adaptation interventions in Thai Binh province focuses on upgrading hard facilities in irrigation and water

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