The water would be reused to irrigate crops.
Retirees from Rainier climes irrigate green lawns that impersonate the grasslands they left behind.
Nepal and Jamaica offered cheap kits (pumps, drip feeds) to persuade smallholders to irrigate their fields.
Increasing demands for water, in particular to irrigate the rice crop, have led to greater dependence on tube Wells.
For centuries, the population has depended on meltwater from the glaciers of the high mountains to irrigate their farmland.
In summer, its steep mountainsides shimmer with wildflowers, and glacial rivers irrigate small valley farm fields and orchards, which yield generous crops of peas, potatoes, apples and plums.
At first glance “Les Chadoufs”, from 1934, is a prosaic scene of the rudimentary pumping machinery the Egyptians used to irrigate their fields with Nile water (see slideshow).
The idea being that the tree needs the same total vein diameter from top to bottom to properly irrigate the leaves.
While this source of water is untreated, it's a cost-conscious way to flood-irrigate trees and small crops on residential acreage.
The waste water is initially stored in a series of ponds in which the anaerobic and aerobic treatment is sufficient to irrigate crops.
"The idea that we could fertilize and irrigate our way out of this problem was the first Green Revolution" led by Nobel Peace Prize-winner Norman Borlaug and others, Lynch says.
We at FAO recognize that the agriculture sector must take the lead in coping with water scarcity by finding more effective ways to conserve rain-fed moisture and irrigate farmlands.
What makes seashore paspalum so special is that it can survive and thrive in high-salt environments. So brackish water or partially salty water can be used to irrigate this grass.
If all goes well, it may even fulfil an old dream to irrigate swathes of farmland in northern Sudan, while sending electricity to run the thirsty air-conditioners of Khartoum.
So far, Mr Norphel's glaciers have been able to each store up to one million cubic feet of ice, which in turn can irrigate 200 hectares of farm land.
