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Unless the lake is filled sufficiently, farmers will not be able to irrigate, and the survival of many farms is at stake. – Boris Rouquet	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You can’t not have farmers because you need food, but we have to have water in order to survive, there’s a very tricky balance to establish. Right now, if they don’t irrigate, we have water, but also a year from now we have no food. – Linda Gutierrez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There's a number of crops that are really struggling due to either lack of rainfall, like the potato crop here relies on rainfall, they don't usually take water from anywhere else to irrigate the fields. And even some of the other crops that do take water from from rivers, for example, to irrigate fields, they're really struggling at the moment, even in current conditions, yields are going to be down for a number of crops and the price of these things are going to go up, and obviously that's due to drought here in The UK. But there's other things going on across Europe. – Liz Bentley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They simply can't afford the fuel it takes to irrigate in the summer season, when it's very hot, but the problem is, that's also when crops get the highest prices at market. – Katie Taylor	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Whether it's a water treatment facility or a system to bring water to fields to irrigate, you're not just funding that project, you're creating a multiplier effect: jobs are being created because water becomes available. – Richard Connor	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's out of balance, the groundwater is not getting restocked as quickly as they’re taking it out to irrigate their land. – David Gutierrez	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Fuel is needed to pump water and irrigate crops. Yemen's fishermen have been unable to go out and fish from lack of fuel, all of this is pointing to a severe breakdown in the functioning of the country's economy - both rural and urban. – James Firebrace	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Unless the lake is filled sufficiently, farmers will not be able to irrigate, and the survival of many farms is at stake.

– Boris Rouquet

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can’t not have farmers because you need food, but we have to have water in order to survive, there’s a very tricky balance to establish. Right now, if they don’t irrigate, we have water, but also a year from now we have no food.

– Linda Gutierrez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's a number of crops that are really struggling due to either lack of rainfall, like the potato crop here relies on rainfall, they don't usually take water from anywhere else to irrigate the fields. And even some of the other crops that do take water from from rivers, for example, to irrigate fields, they're really struggling at the moment, even in current conditions, yields are going to be down for a number of crops and the price of these things are going to go up, and obviously that's due to drought here in The UK. But there's other things going on across Europe.

– Liz Bentley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They simply can't afford the fuel it takes to irrigate in the summer season, when it's very hot, but the problem is, that's also when crops get the highest prices at market.

– Katie Taylor

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Whether it's a water treatment facility or a system to bring water to fields to irrigate, you're not just funding that project, you're creating a multiplier effect: jobs are being created because water becomes available.

– Richard Connor

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's out of balance, the groundwater is not getting restocked as quickly as they’re taking it out to irrigate their land.

– David Gutierrez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Fuel is needed to pump water and irrigate crops. Yemen's fishermen have been unable to go out and fish from lack of fuel, all of this is pointing to a severe breakdown in the functioning of the country's economy - both rural and urban.

– James Firebrace

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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