We put in cisterns to irrigate.

我们还放了水箱进行灌溉。

All the other water users added together… don't come close to irrigated agriculture.

所有其他用水户加在一起，都达不到灌溉农业的用水。

Those then serve as lasting reserves of water that farmers can use to irrigate their crops.

然后这些冰川就成为了永久性的水源，农民便可用于来灌溉庄稼。

There was not enough water in the river to spread rich mud over the fields to irrigate them.

河里没有足够的水把肥沃的泥土冲开在田地上灌溉。

But in the last 19 years, farmers have had to pump water through white plastic pipes to irrigate the fields.

但在过去的19年里，农民不得不通过白色塑料管抽水来灌溉田地。

Abadi is able to irrigate his crops thanks to a replenished water table.

由于补充了地下水位，阿巴迪能够灌溉他的庄稼。

" To irrigate" (irrigate) means to bring water and put that water on the land.

“灌溉”（irrigate）的意思是引水并将水浇在土地上。

Villagers use every stream pouring down from the mountains to irrigate tier upon tier of terraces carved into the precipitous slopes.

村民们利用从山上倾泻下来的每一条溪流，灌溉建在陡峭山坡上一层又一层的梯田。

When there isn't enough rain, which is often the case in California, we have to irrigate the land.

当雨水不足时（加利福尼亚经常出现这种情况），我们就必须灌溉土地。

That would make sense on Arrakis where even the driest of off-planet growing things had to be irrigated.

这在 Arrakis 上是有意义的，即使是最干旱的外星生长物也必须灌溉。

One idea is to plant crops and trees, and then pump desalinated water from the coast of the Sahara to irrigate them.

一种想法是种植庄稼和树木，然后从撒哈拉海岸抽取淡化水灌溉它们。

Aggravating the problem is society's demand for water. Farms are heavily dependent on water to irrigate crops and provide pasture for livestock.

社会对水的需求量使这个问题更加恶化。农田以来水来灌溉作物，为牲畜提供牧场。

So the real worry we have is overusing our freshwater reserves for irrigation and 70% of the world's freshwater reserves go to irrigating crops.

我们真正担心的是过度使用我们的淡水储备用于灌溉，世界上 70% 的淡水储备用于灌溉作物。

And in my mind, if we're already gonna pay those irrigators to not irrigate then why don't we just pay them to adapt?

在我看来，如果我们已经付钱让那些灌溉者不灌溉，那我们为什么不付钱让他们适应呢？

Carl, everyone has heard about the California drought and how some farmers couldn't even plant crops because there was no water to irrigate them.

卡尔，每个人都听说过加利福尼亚州的干旱以及一些农民如何因为没有水灌溉而无法种植庄稼。

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，利用里面的营养灌溉海藻。

Open water … irrigation water … it took five thousand cubic meters of water to irrigate one hectare of land per growing season, he remembered.

露天水… … 灌溉水… … 他记得，每个生长季节需要五千立方米的水才能灌溉一公顷土地。

If you have a very dry area of land and you maybe want to grow some crops in it, you have to irrigate the soil.

如果你有一块非常干旱的土地，你可能想在上面种一些庄稼，你就必须灌溉土壤。

They began building a much larger network of canals designed not just to capture flood season flow but to irrigate year round and to extend the river waters reach.

他们开始建造一个更大的运河网络，不仅是为了捕获汛期的水流，而且是为了全年灌溉，并扩大河水的范围。

That is a problem for those who rely on meltwater from them to irrigate their crops: farmers living in the valleys above Leh, in Jammu and Kashmir, for example.

这对依赖雪水灌溉作物的人们来说可是一个大问题，住在列城上面、査漠和克什米尔的农民们就遇到了这个难题。