PENDLETON, Ore. — Ray Kopacz shouted over the rumbling of the cement truck one recent morning as workers patched up a break in the Stanfield Branch Furnish Ditch that cost farmers a full day’s worth ...

The lack of reliable water sources outside the wet season across outback Queensland has some farmers looking towards ...

Michael Hanson left to right, Michael Kirsch, (North Unit Irrigation District), Dave Moldal (Energy Trust of Oregon), Craig Horrell (Central Oregon Irrigation District and Deschutes Basin Board of ...

Water scarcity and increasing shortages are becoming more prevalent around the globe. At Mississippi State, our teams are developing better irrigation solutions that spur recycling of nutrient-rich ...

An order to halt surface water use in October affected nearly all growers in the Yakima River Basin. They have employed ...

Orman Johnson’s spuds are out of the ground now, piled in sheds longer than football fields, each stuffed with enough tubers to feed Seattle for half a year. Like most of Washington’s 9 billion pounds ...

Crews work to construct the EL 86.4 irrigation delivery system in August 2024. The first delivery of surface water from the Columbia River to roughly 5,500 acres was made on the new system April 1. ( ...

Seven irrigation districts and canal companies representing the Snake River Surface Water Coalition sent a letter on April 23 to the director of the Idaho Department of Water Resources, requesting ...

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- We may be dealing with a third year of drought, but at some point, we will experience a wet year again. When that happens, the Fresno Irrigation District will be in a ...

General Gen. George W. Goethals, the man credited with building the Panama Canal, arrived in Spokane to evaluate another project with massive potential: the Columbia Basin irrigation project. Actually ...