The simple, stone-lined canals were built on a slope, where gravity carried the water downhill to crops. The four canals range from one to four kilometres in length.

India, which is quickly adopting solar power, but has a shortage of available land, is also criss-crossed with an extensive network of irrigation canals. In 2015 a 750-metre long pilot project ...

A handmade gate on a modern canal in northern Peru doesn’t seem that different from ancient canals, but the pre-Hispanic canal systems were generally more conceptually complex and interconnected.

A 115-year-old canal in the Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District that was severely damaged during the Rimrock Retreat Fire last year is now at imminent risk of failure. Fixing the 12-mile waterway ...

Archaeologists have discovered a vast network of ancient irrigation canals near Eridu in Iraq, regarded as the world’s oldest city. The discovery is an amazing window on how early agriculture ...

India already has solar panels over canals, but Project Nexus is the first of its kind in the US. The Turlock Irrigation District was the first irrigation district formed in California in 1887.