Desert Irrigation
by Ray Ellis
Title
Desert Irrigation
Artist
Ray Ellis
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Irrigated wheat fields in Najd, Saudi Arabia. Water is tapped from deep fossil reserves (underground wells) and fed through large rotating booms to water crops that would otherwise die in this barren region. In an effort to approach self-sufficiency in food production the Saudi's instigated an expansion program of irrigated agriculture in the early 1980's. They used this method (called center-pivot) primarily but also introduced some canal irrigation.
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August 6th, 2018
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