Many engineers and entrepreneurs are working on smart ways to improve agricultural irrigation systems to minimize water use, from
improved drip irrigation techniques to using cell phones and sensors to keep farmers alerted to areas of their crops that need water or are over watered.
Not exact matches
For more on efficient water use in agriculture in dry regions, click back to my post on the pioneering work on
drip irrigation by Daniel Hillel and read about how solar - powered pumping systems and
drip irrigation are
improving incomes and lives in sub-Saharan Africa.
There are ways to
improve your
irrigation to focus the water to the plants in a way that reduces the amount of run - off and evaporation, such as
drip -
irrigation systems.
Methods such as accurate water measurement and soil moisture monitoring, laser - leveling fields, using conservation tillage to retain soil moisture, switching to low energy precision application sprinklers, lining canals, and employing subsurface
drip irrigation where possible could save upwards of 40 percent of agriculture's water use while
improving crop yields and saving energy.
For suburban offices, there has been high attention to
improving irrigation efficiency with approaches such as
drip irrigation, weather - based smart
irrigation control, and drought - tolerant landscaping.