61.   Land has been degraded in many areas, often because of inefficient or poorly maintained irrigation systems.

62.   Last year, he invested thousands of dollars in his orchards, installing trellises, planting new fruit varieties and upgrading his irrigation system.

63.   Mendes Junior almost finished a railroad and an irrigation system was about half-complete.

64.   Mobile irrigation systems spray water onto fields, like gushing shower heads.

65.   Money for irrigation systems and the maintenance of rural roads is also included.

66.   Mills are trying to set up additional irrigation systems in their yards because watered wood will keep twice as long.

67.   Much of the Shamali Plain was watered by carezes, a native irrigation system that taps into underground streams and funnels water downhill.

68.   Myers recommends soaker hoses or hand watering over irrigation systems so that the ground, not the foliage, benefits most.

69.   On the volcanic peninsula of Keanae on Maui, Kyle Naka Nelua grows taro in fields that glint like mirrors when they are flooded by the ancient irrigation system.

70.   Onetime luxuries such as in-ground lawn irrigation systems are popping up all over.