Travis Drake
Mrs. Tillquist
English 12B
07 April, 2008

Sprinkler Irrigation Affects Weather/Environment
Irrigated lands contributed to most of the world’s food supply and output. It was estimated that around half of the increased agricultural production was in the 35 years before 1986. One third of the crops grown around the world were on irrigated land. The irrigated land was twice as productive as rain-fed land. The United Nation’s predicted that in the year 2025 the food production will have to increase about 40 to 45 percent to support the world’s population. When this happens they will have to increase of develop new irrigation systems. There are a wide variety of ways to irrigated but some of them are harmful to the weather and the environment. There are irrigation system that we use today that are from the early 1990s and then the new, updated ones.
97 percent of the world’s water lies with in the ocean and the sea. Two percent of all the water is in the......

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