In East Boise, on the outskirts of the ever-sprawling city, a waterway splits from the Boise River and travels southwest, beside busy streets, neighborhoods and shopping centers. The New York Canal — ...

One of the first tasks assigned to the irrigation research team by Delaware farmers was to answer the decades old question of how to best irrigate corn on sandy soils for maximum yield. Our initial ...

The trouble with water, Giulio Boccaletti reminds us in his sweeping “Water: A Biography,” is that it moves. Rivers flood; rain clouds drift away; oceans rise. When human beings lived as nomadic ...

In the desert of central Oregon, east of the Cascade mountains, farmers have been working the arid soil for more than a hundred years. They were lured to the area by turn-of-the-century infrastructure ...

Note: This is the first of two columns regarding the history of Palisade and Mesa County Irrigation Districts. Whisky is for drinking, as the old dictum says, but water was definitely for fighting ...

Irrigated agriculture holds significant potential to boost Indonesia’s economy and improve food security for the country as a whole. In Indonesia, the irrigation sector is often locked into a vicious ...