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ACCIONA has been awarded the contract for the operation and technical assistance of the Monegros Sur Sector XIII-A Irrigation Community in Zaragoza. The community is part of the General Irrigation Community of Alto Aragón and covers 1,700 hectares of irrigated farmland in the municipalities of La Almolda and Pina de Ebro, serving 230 ...
For industrial plant managers, automatic scraper strainers are among the closest solutions to a true 'set-and-forget' system. They effectively remove both large and fine suspended solids from industrial water, cooling tower water, liquids, and slurries. Basic strainer design The basic design represents one of the most efficient and cost-effective industrial self-cleaning strainers available. ...
These contracts further establish the company as a benchmark operator in the integrated water cycle and hydraulic infrastructure maintenance. In La Rioja, Tedagua, in a joint venture with AQLARA, will manage the operation and maintenance of various sanitation, treatment, and supply facilities in the Rioja Baja and Cidacos areas. ...
The Middle East, covering almost 7.3 million km2 and with an estimated population of more than 500 million, is one of the world’s key regions. Yet it is also fraught with challenges. On top of the armed conflicts in some areas which are impacting the World Bank’s growth forecasts, there is also a rise in temperatures triggered by climate change which, in the last decade alone, has ...
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Agriculture is the backbone of Nepal’s economy, employing 67% of the population and contributing to the nation’s livelihoods. Traditionally male-led, the sector is now seeing an increasing number of women taking charge: the percentage of women-headed households in agriculture increased from 19% to 32% in the last decade, which is attributed to the migration of male household ...
Data integration, which spearheads digital transformation, enables irrigation associations to deploy new technological solutions that harness data to usher in greater sustainability, say Idrica’s experts. Integrated water cycle management encompasses the complex task of managing the systems and processes that supply drinking water to the world’s population and ...
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On October 3, Idrica Qatar (Aguas de Valencia WLL) was awarded first prize in the Green Awards’ Green Design category, thanks to the smart irrigation pilot program in which the GoAigua Smart Green solution was implemented in two parks in the city of Al Khor. Ashghal thus acknowledged the hard work carried out by the company in a project regarded as a Sustainable Development initiative, in ...
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Irrigated agriculture is the world’ s largest consumer of water, accounting for 70% of water withdrawals and 90% of total consumption according to the FAO. ...
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The quality of the ecoFITTOM® PVC-O fittings is demonstrated wiht the AENOR Product Certificate N Brand according to the Spanish Standard UNE-CEN/TS 17176-3:2019 (CEN/TS 17176-3:2019) “Plastics piping systems for water supply and for buried and above ground drainage, sewerage and irrigation under pressure - Oriented unplasticized poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC-O) - Part 3: ...
The solution begins with Senix ultrasonic level and distance sensors. Australia's Irrigation Situation Irrigation management is serious business in Australia, especially within the Murray-Darling Basin, a 1,000,000 square kilometer watershed that's home to Australia’s most productive agricultural land. ...
Rentricity is currently developing over 9 new projects across drinking water, food processing water, low impact dams, and irrigation systems. About Rentricity: Based in New York City, Rentricity Inc. is a renewable energy company that uses unique energy recovery configurations to transform untapped energy within various man‐made water, wastewater, ...
One of the most urgent challenges is investing in rural infrastructure — energy, transportation, irrigation and telecommunications — "without which it will not be possible to make effective use of any seed irrespective of whether it is bred conventionally or through genetic modification". ...
The greatest benefits are likely to occur from more expensive adaptation measures including the development of new crop varieties and uptake of new technologies such as the expansion of irrigation infrastructure. -ends- Notes to Editors:The full study is reported in the Institute of Physics (IOP) academic journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL) ...
Ravi Prakash Singh, head of CIMMYT's Irrigated Bread Wheat Improvement and Rust Research programme, agreed: "Each country will need to invest more in agriculture, otherwise food shortages can lead to social unrest, as seen in recent years in some countries". ...
The high level of salt threatening two-thirds of Iraq's irrigated farmland — as well as many other countries — is being targeted by a group of Iraqi and international researchers and policymakers. ...
Each project has its own set of specific goals, management practices and borders which will be described locally. On irrigated cropland these will typically include a mix of irrigation efficiency improvements including irrigation water management, vegetative filtering practices, nutrient management, pest management, cover crops, sediment basins ...
Kibaki said better technology for water and irrigation infrastructure was required to help counter the effects of climate change. ...
The Rudd Government is calling for proposals for a new $300 million on-farm irrigation efficiency grants program to help deliver a long-term sustainable future for Murray-Darling Basin irrigation communities. ...
They include population growth, increasing mobility of people, deforestation (which creates ideal conditions for malarial mosquitoes), irrigation, deteriorating health infrastructures (accelerated by the ravages of HIV/AIDS), drug resistance, and war and civil strife. ...
From 1970 to 1995, the area under irrigation in Asia more than doubled, according to the IWMI-FAO report, making this the world’s most intensively irrigated ...