We plan to set up a modern system of irrigation.

我们计划建立一个现代灌溉系统。

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

用水灌溉土地面积已经翻番，农业用水量增加了两倍。

The past 50 years of over-farming a lot of land has created real problems on the global basis in terms of having enough irrigable farmland.

去50年耕种土地在全球范围内造成了真正问题，因为有足够灌溉农田。

What we do is irrigate book deserts.

我们所是灌溉图书沙漠。

Irrigated by a special system that delivers the precise amount needed to each plant.

通一个特殊系统进行灌溉，为每株植物提供精确灌溉量。

His fields of ice supply perfectly timed irrigation water.

他冰地提供了非常及时灌溉用水。

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

因为水分会灌溉草坪上蒸发掉。但到底会蒸发掉多少呢?

Diesel alone, which powers the pumps irrigating Egypt's farms, accounts for $7.5 billion in subsidies and is sold to consumers at the equivalent of 16 cents a litre, whereas most Europeans pay $2 or more.

在埃及，单单是用于灌溉柴油补贴，每年有75亿美金。在埃及，这些柴油以相当于16美分每公升价格卖给消费者，然而在欧洲，消费者需要支付两美元或者更多。

Water from there irrigates all the fields outside it.

亚马逊雨林流出来河流灌溉了雨林外所有土地。

It is all based on the knowledge of our ancestors, the irrigation system too.

这都是基于我们祖先知识所得出，灌溉系统也是。

Most were along narrow manmade waterways used to water crops.

很多都沿着之前用来灌溉作为人工水道而建。

And with just a little bit of clean, renewable energy, you can pump that water up and use the nutrients in it to irrigate your seaweed crop.

而且利用一点点清洁可再生能源，可以把那部分水抽上来，利用里面营养灌溉海藻。

Each one of these tiny circles is an irrigated field half a mile in diameter.

每一个小圆圈都是直径半英里灌溉田。

Calm and peaceful for most of the year, the Nile used to flood annually, thereby creating, irrigating and carrying new topsoil to the nearby farmland on which ancient Egypt depended for livelihood.

在一年中大部分时间里尼罗河都还算平静，去尼罗河每年都会泛滥，而生成、灌溉和搬运新表层土壤到附近农田——这片古埃及赖以生存土地。

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

农民还可以利用卫星图像来判定灌溉农田最佳时间。

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

信德农业主要依靠尚未完全修复灌溉渠。

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

Tina Shields 是帝王灌溉区水资源经理。

That's when the interest really became instilled in me.

在那时，对观鸟兴趣逐渐灌溉了我心田。

Most of them are working on the irrigation project.

他们中多数人都在参加灌溉工程工作。

In the midst of the drought in California, the massively irrigated almond counties are the driest and have seen the biggest decreases in groundwater reserves.

在加州干旱中，大规模灌溉杏仁县是最干旱，地下水储量减少最多。