Irrigated winter wheat, oasis in Gobi Desert, Gansu Province, China, Asia

Irrigation channel carrying water, Huebro, Sierra Alhamilla mountains, Nijar, Almeria, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

Women farmers carry irrigation tools like small spades used to channel the precious water to their fields, Ladakh, India, Asia

In Guilin, irrigation channel among rice paddies in area of limestone towers, Yangshuo, Guangxi Province, China

Washing beside the drain pumping water from the Nile to supply a crop irrigation channel around the village of Ramadi, west bank of the Nile south of Edfu, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Aerial of suburbs of Cairo with a little channel for irrigation, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Children washing clothes in a drain pumping water from the Nile to supply a crop irrigation channel around the village of Ramadi, west bank of the Nile south of Edfu, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Rice Terrace Irrigation Channel, Philippines

Irrigation channel in countryside near Kursunlu, with Kuyucak mountains in distance, Anatolia, Turkey, Asia Minor, Eurasia

From the left the Algunder Waal (canal) hiking trail the Dorf Tirol below castle de Fontana and the mountain Ilfinger peak, near Meran, South Tyrol, Italy

Construction section, hiking trail along an old irrigation channel, Bisse Vieux, aqueduct, Valais, Switzerland, Europe

Levada, traditional irrigation channel near Cabeco Gordo in dense forest. Faial Island, an island in the Azores (Ilhas dos Acores) in the Atlantic ocean. The Azores are an autonomous region of Portugal.

SOMALIA Bula Hawa Local men and irrigation channel in project to restart agriculture in area devastated by war near Mandera funded by Trocaire.