Gary Chandler, co-chair of the House Agriculture and Ecology Committee, hails from Grant County, whose dry land was transformed 60 years ago by the Columbia Basin irrigation project into sprawling fields of beans and peas.
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In its unsuccessful high court appeal, the East Columbia Basin Irrigation District urged the justices to resolve the differences between the lower courts, and limit the government's lawsuit protection to cases that have some direct connection to the flood-control efforts.
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Apart from major rivers, there are small rivers as Tunga Bhadra, Bima, Dindi, Kinnerasani, Manjeera, Manair, Penganga, Pranahitha, peddavagu and Taliperu . There are many multi-state irrigation projects in development, including Godavari River Basin Irrigation Projects and Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, the world's highest masonry dam.
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In the case at the high court, for example, the East Columbia Basin Irrigation District argued that the government could be sued because the dispute involved a canal built for irrigation, not flood control, and the damage was caused by negligent construction work, not flooding.
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Egyptians were among the first peoples to practice agriculture on a large scale, starting in the pre-dynastic period from the end of the Paleolithic into the Neolithic, between around 10, 000 and 4, 000 BC . This was made possible with the development of basin irrigation.
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Acrolein is a herbicide used in waterways that causes any fish in the area to " get zapped, " said South Columbia Basin Irrigation District manager Shannon McDaniel in Pasco, Wash . But, he added, it is " the most cost-effective and efficient method " of killing weeds.
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In 1258 the commander of the Mongol Hulagu Khan's forces besieging Baghdad was a Chinese General Guo Kan . The Chinese General Guo Kan was then made Governor of Baghdad by Hulagu, who also brought Chinese technicians specializing in hydraulics to engineer the Tigris Euphrates basin irrigation systems.
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However, the earliest and most famous reference to irrigation in Egyptian archaeology has been found on the mace head of the Scorpion King, which has been roughly dated to about 3100 BC . The mace head depicts the king cutting into a ditch that is part of a grid of basin irrigation.
