The low volume is due to increased agricultural irrigation, by a factor of five since 1950 .

Facilities have also been put into place to treat urban and industrial run-off for agricultural irrigation.

Most of these are having problems due to overpumping for agricultural irrigation.

Water from this dam is used primarily for agricultural irrigation.

The local geography makes karez wells practical for agricultural irrigation and other uses.

This was the major source of water for household consumption and for agricultural irrigation, but the river is running dry.

The village has a well to provide agricultural irrigation and also an overhead water tank for human consumption.

This provided agricultural irrigation for the local people and so could not be interrupted during construction because of its economic importance.

Power generation along with agricultural irrigation started in 1956, achieving full potential in 1966.

Factors such as climate change will increase pressures on natural water resources especially in manufacturing and agricultural irrigation.