#irrigation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #irrigation, aggregated by home.social.
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This is a very long shot (and has nothing to do with history & co :sadness: ), but does anyone know of a database/book/compehensive list, or someone who might know one, about crop responses to deficit irrigation?
Also: accessible without academic affiliation.
(sorry for the length of the hashtags)
#help #horticulture #agriculture #sustainability #science #irrigation #aridagriculture #crops #plants #agronomy #drought #environment #botany #watermanagement #water #rhizosphere
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Qu’est devenue en réalité l’eau de Sainte-Soline en 2026 ?
▫️Évaporée ?
▫️Ou pompée illégalement ( #irrigation ) malgré la décision de justice ?
C'est à éclaircir
▫️Si c'est une évaporation, ça souligne l'inanité des méga-bassines
▫️Si c'est un pompage, ça semble être dans l'illégalité
▫️Et si l'on tentait une 3e explication => l'eau s'est évaporée mais vaut mieux dire qu'elle a été pompée, car ils sont quasi sûrs de ne pas être sanctionnés et ça évite de souligner cet appropriation de la ressource et le non-sens des #mégabassines, qui pompent dans la nappe puis laissent d'évaporer cette #eauQu'en pensez vous ?
Quel est le fin mot ?https://reporterre.net/Sainte-Soline-a-sec-mi-juillet-evaporation-ou-infraction
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#Colombie #agriculture #irrigation
#autogestion #coopérationDes siècles avant les Incas, cette population locale a construit un système d'irrigation incroyable
Peu avant notre ère, les habitants de la région colombienne de La Mojana ont développé un gigantesque système de canaux et de parcelles surélevés. Ce système aurait été bâti par une société non hiérarchique et pourrait inspirer les populations locales.
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RE: https://mas.to/@econetwork/117095983208600462
In general, I am against using wells for irrigation, because I believe that the aquifer needs to be replenished rather than taken from. However, our friends have already taken this path and right now, it is the fastest and cheapest way to achieve near-term stability. In many parts of the world, €2600 would not even get you a shallow well.
Please help them, because their work is too important and promising to be held back by an imperfection. If @econetwork succeeds, they will be able to teach many people sustainable drought strategies.
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Random question on irrigation for the Fediverse. In-laws house has an old Hunter irrigation controller which appears to have been designed in the 1980's and requires an engineering degree to program, considering a more modern controller... but not one that requires any subscription and can run independent of the cloud if needed -- but can also support app-based programming and/or integration with HA or other DIY tools. Does such a thing exist? Bonus points for cloud-is-optional. Rachio? Orbit? etc. etc.?
(I do have an engineering degree, had to reprogram the thing for them after they had to change out all the leaking valves).
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The Magic of a Front Yard Edible Garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1929369/the-magic-of-a-front-yard-edible-garden/ #birds #EastCoast #EastCoastFrontYardGarden #EastCoastFrontYardGardening #ecosystem #EdibleGarden #FrontYardGarden #FrontYardGardening #FrontYard? #GardenDesign #GardeningZone #GrowingFood #insects #irrigation #monarch #MonarchWaystation #neighborhood #neighbors #planting #pollinators #RaisedBeds #RemoveGrass #UrbanGardener #wildlife
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Damnit, sorry it was my fault... Just checked our water usage and discovered the irrigation timers had been misprogramed. Instead of watering twice a day they were running 3 or 8 times a day 😱 and had burned through up to 1,000 gallons a day. Holy fork.
#gardening #water #conservation #irrigation
Lake Mead plummets to historic... -
Identifying Agricultural Consumptive-Use Patterns To Support Adaptive Water Management In California’s Santa Clara Valley Via Remote Sensing And Machine Learning
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000416 <-- shared paper
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H/T @Guillaume Wright | Executive Editor, PLOS
“💧 With drought [and high temperatures] gripping many areas of the world right now... [the H/T] wanted to highlight a new paper in PLOS Water this week with a very timely focus on hydroclimatic stresses and what can be done to mitigate this through water management practices when it comes to agriculture.
[The authors] investigate[d] adaptive water management practices in California’s Santa Clara Valley via remote sensing and machine learning techniques. They [found] good evidence for use of customized agricultural water-management plans for irrigation monitoring, conservation planning, and adaptive water management in groundwater-dependent regions such as is found in California…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #California #SantaClara #SantaClaraValley #custom #watermanagement #practices #waterresources #agriculture #remotesensing #spatialanalysis #machinelearning #earthobservation #AI #planning #wateruse #efficiency #water #hydrology #irrigation #conservation #adaptivewatermanagement #model #modeling #drought #extremeweather #hydroclimate #stress #crop #cropland #evapotranspiration #ET #NDVI #PRISM #precipitation #rainfall #watermanagementplan #groundwater -
Per Drop More Crop Scheme
The Per Drop More Crop initiative enhances irrigation efficiency in India, aiming to address water scarcity through micro-irrigation technologies.https://krishicenter.com/2026/08/01/per-drop-more-crop-scheme/
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Unraveling The Drivers Of Water Shortage Across Spatial Scales And Sectors In Colorado's West Slope River Basins
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2026EF008137 <-- shared paper
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['sorry' about your Kentucky Bluegrass, almonds, etc... /s]
H/T Sai Veena Sunkara | Postdoctoral Associate
“…Colorado’s West Slope basins provide nearly 70% of the inflows to Lake Powell and are also essential to communities, agriculture, industry, hydropower, and downstream Colorado River users.
To examine the wide range of possible futures, [they] simulated 2.1 million years, defining 20,000 plausible scenarios applying changes to streamflow, snowmelt timing, drought persistence, and agricultural, municipal, and industrial water demand.
A key finding is that there is 𝗻𝗼 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀. The most influential drivers vary by basin, sector, and water user. In some areas, shortages are driven primarily by persistent low-flow conditions or changing snowmelt timing. In others, increasing municipal, industrial, or irrigation demand plays a larger role. This suggests that adaptation strategies must be tailored to specific basins and users rather than relying on a single, system-wide solution. Other major findings are
• West Slope deliveries to Lake Powell could fall more than 50% below the current median baseline
• Storage in major West Slope reservoirs could decline 40–55% below historical medians
These results underscore the need for water-planning approaches that account for deep uncertainty, persistent drought, shifting snowmelt patterns, and sector-specific demand…”
#Colorado #waterallocation #StateMod #USWest #USA #WesternSlope #waterresources #watersecurity #watershortage #drought #snowmelt #rainfall #precipitation #riverbasin #water #hydrography #hydrology #reasons #agriculture #industry #hydropower #streamflow #surfacewater #municipal #irrigation #adaptationstrategies #planning #policy #mitigation #ColoradoRiver #basins #climatechange #extremeweather #populationpressure #waterdemand #waterrights #model #modeling #HiddenMarkovModel #stochastic #projecteddemand #ColoradoRiverBasin #wateruse #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #strategy -
I printed case for the small automatic irrigation system I am building. It contains the batteries, the circuit and the little pump. There is a slot to insert a RS233 adapter to program it with a laptop. Maybe in the next iteration I will include an LCD and a rotary encoder, but for the moment it will do. #3Dprint #electronics #Diy #ElectronicsDiy #microcontrollers #irrigation
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⚖️ La justice à tranché :
après des années d’exploitation illégale, les mégabassines de l’ASAI des Roches (Charente maritime) devront être supprimées !Une belle victoire de Nature-Environnement 17, fédération locale de France Nature Environnement ! 📣
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Ancient Water Wisdom - The Acequias Of Sierra Nevada, Europe’s Oldest Groundwater System ⛰️
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https://memolaproject.eu/sierra-nevada/wateruse <-- shared link to the 𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗟𝗔 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 page
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https://regadiohistorico.es/ <-- shared technical page, “Collaborative map of historical irrigation systems in Granada and Almería” / “Mapa colaborativo de regadíos históricos de Granada y Almería”
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https://youtu.be/-TIUI2KflMk?si=iaSOwV99-WWMDCpV <-- shared video overview, “Participa al Mapa colaborativo de regadíos históricos de Granada y Almería”
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H/T @sofie de Volder | Co-founder TRAQUA
“[The author has] already discussed ancient water management systems, such as the qanats in Persia and other Eastern countries. In Europe, there are the acequias of the Sierra Nevada in Andalusia, Spain.
The hand-dug channels date back over 1,000 years to the Moorish era. Networks of canals, aqueducts and cisterns were engineered to capture and transport snowmelt, turning this natural resource into a sustainable water supply for agriculture. The high-altitude ditches had openings, allowing water to infiltrate into fractures and faults, replenishing the aquifer, and to irrigate the lower levels of the slopes.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗮𝘀?
✅ Gravity-fed irrigation that supported terraced farms and local biodiversity.
✅ Designed to distribute water slowly and equitably, even during dry summers.
✅ Stretching over thousands of kilometres, these systems fell into disuse in the 1980s but are now part of restoration efforts led by the MEMOLA Project (Universidad de Granada).
With climate change and more intense droughts, the Acequias could provide an ancient solution to the modern-day water crisis…”
#Spain #𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗮𝘀 #waterresources #historic #irrigation #mapping #watermanagement #agriculture #farming #watersecurity #HistoricalIrrigationSystems #agroecological #SierraNevada #Andalusia #Moors #engineering #constructed #channels #canals #aqueducts #cisterns #water #hydrography #snowmelt #naturalresource #sustainability #groundwater #aquifers #recharge #MEMOLA #mapping #climatechange #extremeweather #drought -
In the last few days I worked on a new project: a simple irrigation controller for some plants. A PIC microcontroller handles a small pump and a humidity sensor that measures the soil’s electrical conductivity. On this version all is controlled via a serial link. I may add an encoder and an LCD display in a later version. I kind of like programming #pic microcontrollers in assembly. #ElectronicsDIY #Microcontrollers #Irrigation #Electronics #DIY
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Advice on helping gardens survive summer heat | Daily Democrat, Fort Madison, Iowa https://www.allforgardening.com/1877379/advice-on-helping-gardens-survive-summer-heat-daily-democrat-fort-madison-iowa/ #agriculture #archaeplastida #botany #flower #garden #gardening #Heat #horticulture #irrigation #Kingdoms(biology) #moisture #plant #PlantAgriculture #plants #PlantsAndHumans #Root #soil #SoilMoisture #Stress(biology) #temperature #Vegetable #water
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GMIA-NEXT - Next-Generation Global Map of Irrigated Areas |
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https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-10085674/v1 <-- shared paper
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https://zenodo.org/records/17627111 <-- shared open data
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H/T @kyle Davis
“Irrigation plays a critical role in global food production and climate adaptation and exercises profound influence over humanity's water use. Yet despite its critical importance, there is a persistent lack of understanding of fine-scale irrigation patterns across the planet, knowledge which is essential for informing global food security and sustainability targets. Utilizing either statistical downscaling or remote sensing approaches, existing global irrigation datasets are constrained by coarse spatial resolutions, a lack of timeliness, or varying robustness and reliability. To address this gap, here [they] integrate[d] multi-source Earth observation and environmental datasets and use[d] machine learning to develop a medium-resolution (30 metre) global irrigated area dataset for the 2023/24 growing season. Within existing cropland extent, we leverage a newly compiled set of georeferenced irrigated (N=230,683) and non-irrigated (N=153,194) ground-truth points and integrate seasonal vegetation metrics derived from Landsat 8/9 imagery with agroecological-zone information and hydroclimatic and topographic variables. [They] subsequently develop and evaluate two machine-learning frameworks, a continental Agro-Ecological Zone (AEZ) tile-based framework and a continental-scale framework, and apply the best-performing approach for each continent. Evaluation using held-out test samples yielded a global accuracy of 80.5 ± 2.1%. The resulting maps were also validated against independent global and national irrigation datasets and statistics, demonstrating broad agreement in the spatial distribution of irrigated areas. This approach is robust and reliable because it is built on a harmonized global ground-truth database, incorporates multiple predictors, and is rigorously validated using independent datasets. All code, ground-truth, and data products are freely and publicly available [link above] and can serve as a robust, scale-neutral, and fully reproducible framework for fine-resolution irrigation mapping. These advances provide the critical and long-needed foundation for near-real-time monitoring and early warning systems, and fine-scale land and water resource management…”
#IrrigatedAreas #Mapping #GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #global #irrigation #water #hydrology #hydrography #waterresources #farming #agriculture #opendata #remotesensing #earthobservation #geomorphometry #AI #machinelearning #LLM #model #modeling #WaterManagement #opendata #AgroEcologicalZone #AEZ #cropland #irrigatedareas #foodproduction #wateruse #humanimpacts #EarthObservation #remotesensing #earlywarning #monitoring #FoodandAgricultureOrganizationFAO #FAO
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https://www.fogolf.com/1319298/arizona-opinion-technology-is-changing-the-game-why-arizonas-golf-water-debate-needs-a-reset/ Arizona opinion: Technology is changing the game: Why Arizona’s golf-water debate needs a reset #arizona #Golf #GolfCourse #GolfNews #Irrigation #Technology #water
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Uzbekistan has sharply reduced water stress through irrigation reforms, but the UN says climate pressure and Aral Sea damage still pose major risks https://ow.ly/Zmap50ZmqWq #Uzbekistan #WaterSecurity #AralSea #Irrigation #ClimateRisk #WaterManagement #UN
UN: Uzbekistan Makes Major Pro... -
Summer Gardening Made Easy – MyCalgary https://www.allforgardening.com/1864400/summer-gardening-made-easy-mycalgary/ #2026 #Alberta #bees #CityOfCalgary #feature #Flora #garden #gardening #irrigation #JULY #plants #RainBarrel #summer #yard #yyc
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Garden tips for July | Master Gardener | Lifestyles https://www.allforgardening.com/1861126/garden-tips-for-july-master-gardener-lifestyles/ #agriculture #archaeplastida #botany #CynodonDactylon #garden #gardening #grass #horticulture #insect #irrigation #Kingdoms(biology) #lawn #moisture #OrnamentalGrass #OrnamentalPlant #Pest(organism) #plant #PlantAgriculture #plants #PlantsAndHumans #pruning #seed #seedling #soil #water #weed
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Ya he integrado a mi dashboard el nuevo riego automático del hogar!! Ahora tocará hacer la instalación del segundo riego, que será para los arboles y otras plantas que tenemos.
