Irrigation Scheme
by Nasa
Title
Irrigation Scheme
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Nasa
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Shuttle photograph of an irrigation scheme at Jabal Tuwayq in Saudi Arabia. Water is tapped from deep fossil reserves and fed through large rotating booms hence irrigating crops which 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 relied on this method (called center pivot) primarily but they also incorporated come canal irrigation projects,
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February 20th, 2013
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