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Lower water availability forced a revision in the area that GAP will irrigate, down to 1.05 million hectares, from an original 1.8 million.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2022

When all of that is finished — if all of that is ever finished — an expected 13 billion gallons of water will irrigate more than 300 square miles of newly created farmland.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2012

In the new dry and barren Columbia basin, Grand Coulee will irrigate and electrify 30,000 forty-acre farms capable of supporting 1,500,000 people.

From Time Magazine Archive

It cost $75,000,000 and will irrigate a rainless desert area as big as Massachusetts.

From Time Magazine Archive

It will irrigate at least 150,000 acres for rice cultivation and will feed 400,000 people.

From India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by Jones, John P. (John Peter)