The area under irrigation has doubled and the amount of water drawn for farming has tripled.

用水灌溉的土地面积已经翻番，农业用水量增加了两倍。

Because water just evaporates from overwatered lawns. But how much?

因为水分会从过度灌溉的草坪上蒸发掉。但到底会蒸发掉多少呢?

They cut vines in a different way and sometimes watered vines in places where irrigation is usually banned.

他用不同的方式割藤，有时在通常禁止灌溉的地方给藤浇水。

Excess water from irrigation sinks down into the water table.

灌溉过量的水会沉入地下水位。

Most were along narrow manmade waterways used to water crops.

很多都沿着之用来灌溉作为的人工水道而建。

Tina Shields is a water manager for the Imperial Irrigation District.

Tina Shields 是帝王灌溉区的水资源经理。

The government approved the project as what it saw as an essential means of providing drinking water and irrigation.

政府认为该项目是提供饮用水和灌溉的重手段，因此批准了该项目。

These showed that seaweed grows four times faster on platforms irrigated with upwelled water than on equivalent, unirrigated platforms.

这些研究表明，在用上涌水灌溉的平台上，海草的生长速度是同等条件下没有灌溉上涌水的平台的四倍。

Farmers living in the area use glacial melt water for their crops in the dry season.

住在该地区的农用冰川融化后的水来灌溉旱季的庄稼。

Farmers can use satellite images to decide the best time to water their fields.

农还可以利用卫星图像来判定灌溉农田的最佳时间。

Water from there irrigates all the fields outside it.

从亚马逊雨林流出来的河流灌溉了雨林外的所有土地。

We plan to set up a modern system of irrigation.

我计划建立一个现代的灌溉系统。

His fields of ice supply perfectly timed irrigation water.

他的冰地提供了非常及时的灌溉用水。

Moreover, it continues to grow during the warmest months of the year, when seaweed not so irrigated actually shrinks.

此外，在一年中最温暖的几个月里，海草还能继续生长，而没有得到充分灌溉的海草其实会萎缩。

Pre-Colonial empires built their own irrigation system.

殖帝国建立了自己的灌溉系统。

And that's the reason it's not used for irrigation.

这就是它不用于灌溉的原因。

All the other water users added together… don't come close to irrigated agriculture.

所有其他用水户加在一起，都达不到灌溉农业的用水。

Agriculture in Sindh depends mainly on irrigation canals that have not been fully repaired yet.

信德的农业主依靠尚未完全修复的灌溉渠。

The wastewater from the bathrooms and kitchens ends up here to water the plants that are left.

从浴室和厨房流出的废水最终到达这里灌溉剩下的植物。

What we do is irrigate book deserts.

我所做的就是灌溉图书沙漠。