1.   One-third of the water irrigates thirsty crops of low value - alfalfa, cotton, rice - and pasture.

2.   A Chilean project has used waste water from copper mines to safely irrigate crops.

3.   Certain growers, he said, also sanitize the water they use to irrigate their crops.

4.   He irrigates his crops with a watering can.

5.   He says the pump, which is fueled by fire, could change the way the world obtains drinking water and irrigates crops.

6.   It will use the rest to irrigate crops and service its own industries.

7.   The result is that a number of Rio Grande Valley farmers are about to be cut off from the water they need to irrigate their crops.

8.   The treated water would be pristine enough to irrigate food crops.

9.   They share an eye for the paradoxes inherent in the social landscape, where water is sometimes holy and sometimes a resource for irrigating crops.

10.   When Mexico announced that it would repay the water debt in March, many farmers elected to irrigate their crops.