Mary Gish, Nevada County Master GardenerFrom The Curious Gardener, Spring 2007Now that spring is here and the majority of the rainy season is over, your plants will have an increased need for water.

SISTERS, Ore. — When Marc Thalacker first walked into Central Oregon’s Three Sisters Irrigation District Office in 1988, he was taken aback. The dilapidated office had no running water, a sputtering ...

Picture a farm or garden, and you're likely to imagine crops planted in rows. Run water between the rows and you have furrow irrigation, one of humanity's oldest methods used to grow food. It's still ...

An irrigation pivot is seen in a demonstration Thursday at a cornfield farmed by Rob Sladek in Conesville. Sladek can remotely turn the system on and off and irrigates about 10 percent of his crops.

Of all the ways that humans consume water, there is no practice that uses more water than irrigation, which accounts for more than 90% of humanity’s water consumption. While irrigation is necessary to ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- With warming spring weather and the start of the growing season, the City of Bend wants to remind the community of the importance of “slowing the flow” when it comes to outdoor ...

The new S. J. Quinney College of Law building on the University of Utah campus features a combination of innovative ideas to form one original, state-of-the-art engineered system. At the foundation of ...

Future Green Irrigation, a Calgary-based irrigation contractor known for structured service processes and certified technical expertise, announced the expansion of its full irrigation services ...

Effective water management can reduce water costs for farmers, enabling them to increase their yields and cultivate higher-value crops. In Uzbekistan, a World Bank-supported project aims to help 1,500 ...