irrigatory

The rivers were still at least faintly filthy, and there had been an orthodoxy, since the 60s, for irrigatory and other channels to be set in concrete canals.

From toxic sewer to natural haven, the river Wear's return from the dead 2011

Patient efforts by the 'International Bank in Washington have so far failed to find a solution that would produce for India the extra irrigatory supplies she needs for her increasing millions of impoverished peasants, without reducing the flow no less vitally needed by Pakistan to feed her own fast-growing population.

Muslim and Hindu 1969

Patient efforts by the 'International Bank in Washington have so far failed to find a solution that would produce for India the extra irrigatory supplies she needs for her increasing millions of impoverished peasants, without reducing the flow no less vitally needed by Pakistan to feed her own fast-growing population.

Muslim and Hindu 1958

One great scheme planned by him, an irrigatory canal between the Ticino and the Po, was only finished after his death, as the most worthy tribute to his memory.

Cavour Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn 1898