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2. Newlands Reclamation Act - Wikipedia

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   The act at first covered only 16 of the western states, as delineated by the 100th meridian, as Texas had no federal lands. [1] Texas was added later by a special act passed in 1906. [2] The act set aside money from sales of semi-arid public lands for the construction and maintenance of irrigation projects. The newly irrigated land would be ...

3. Center-pivot irrigation - Wikipedia

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   A satellite image of circular fields characteristic of center pivot irrigation, Kansas Farmland with circular pivot irrigation. Center-pivot irrigation (sometimes called central pivot irrigation), also called water-wheel and circle irrigation, is a method of crop irrigation in which equipment rotates around a pivot and crops are watered with sprinklers.

4. Agriculture in the Southwestern United States - Wikipedia

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   The Native Americans in the Southwest used the most advanced agricultural techniques available at the time. They frequently employed the use of irrigation, crop rotation, and windbreaks to maximize their crop yield. These techniques were presumably borrowed from the people of Mexico and the Andes in the south.

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6. Irrigation - Wikipedia

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   Micro-irrigation, sometimes called localized irrigation, low volume irrigation, or trickle irrigation is a system where water is distributed under low pressure through a piped network, in a pre-determined pattern, and applied as a small discharge to each plant or adjacent to it. Traditional drip irrigation use individual emitters, subsurface ...

7. List of canals in Texas - Wikipedia

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   See Texas Irrigation Canals. Franklin Canal (Texas) Riverside Canal (El Paso) American Canal This page was last edited on 9 August 2024, at 16:23 (UTC). Text is ...