The waters in these three rivers irrigate the plains of Punjab, which produce most of the wheat and paddy that Indians eat and, if any left, export.
Irrigation before planting may work better than trying to irrigate the cover crop up.
The flow is diverted down the rows to irrigate their crops.
The water helps irrigate 14,000 hectares or 35,000 acres of cotton.
Fishing is unauthorized activity here, so is diverting water to irrigate fields.
While rainfall registers about 50 inches per year, growers often have to irrigate their crops during extended drought periods.
For millennia farmers have had to stretch water resources to irrigate their crops.
Rebecca uses a sprinkler system to irrigate her crops.
It has a small cultivable area to be irrigated by these rivers.
In these areas, 37 tanks used for irrigating farmlands are at just 13 percent of capacity.