A little more than a month ago, Bend, Ore., entrepreneur Ken Carhart drove to the Carpenter family’s hop farm in Yakima County, Wash., and hauled away discarded drip irrigation tubing. The farm was ...
KHALA, Afghanistan — For Abdul Majid, desperation has become a way of life. With a fourth straight crop failure looming and a wife and five small children to feed, he has quite literally bet the farm ...
Q: You emphasized it’s better to water longer rather than more often. But what if that’s not possible? Our small condo community has an old irrigation system with everything watered from the same ...
Urban irrigation is an antiquated practice in which fewer than 1 percent of Valley residents are customers It%27s a good deal for the customers%2C but costs other irrigation programs millions of ...
In his truck, as he makes his morning rounds of the Mesa County Irrigation District, Dave Voorhees checks a program on his computer tablet that shows him where each property lies, who owns it, and ...
A deteriorating abandoned irrigation pipe below the pavement of Interstate 5 is being blamed for a sinkhole that has detoured motorists near Tracy this week. While the cause of the sinkhole has been ...
Jes Burns, OPB/EarthFix Irrigators from Southern Oregon and Northern California are in federal court this week. They’re arguing the U.S. government owes them millions of dollars in compensation for ...
Adding a new zone to an irrigation system; PEX vs. copper; repairing stripped screw holes. Lee Gilliam travels to Austin, Texas to help a homeowner add drip line to her existing sprinkler spray head ...
The state announcement that it will curtail diversions of water has led to speculation that it plans to tap into the water now stored in irrigation district reservoirs. Modesto Bee Some folks simply ...
BUHL, Idaho — Irrigators on the Clover Tract of the Twin Falls Canal Co. will have a 21st century irrigation system when a $6 million project is completed. The project will convert the old open-canal ...
An ancient Moorish invention could protect Spain from a future of severe droughts. The irrigation channels run through 15,000 miles of Spain's mountainous provinces. As generational knowledge dwindles ...