1.   As a result, environmental groups have been arguing that farmers had to take steps to control emissions from diesel tractors, irrigation pumps and other heavy farm machinery.

2.   Agriculture is collapsing because no fertilizers can be imported and there is no electricity to power irrigation pumps.

3.   But others say a well-placed computer, like a communal well or an irrigation pump, may become another tool for development.

4.   In the glare of headlights, he switched on irrigation pumps and wind machines that spewed out clouds of warming moisture.

5.   Kamen has spent years developing the likes of a portable dialysis machine, a multipurpose medical irrigation pump, and an intravascular stent.

6.   No one can work in the fields because there is no power to operate the irrigation pump.

7.   Still, others say a well-placed computer, like a communal well or an irrigation pump, may become another tool for development.

8.   That means culling a lot of grapes and turning off the irrigation pumps.

9.   The village gets only about eight hours of power a day, and that is often of such low voltage that it does not operate the irrigation pumps.

10.   They will go on to power everything from irrigation pumps in remote Asian villages to two-way radios on oceangoing yachts.