Discover why the brass impact sprinkler has lasted 90+ years. Learn how thoughtful engineering, material selection, and ...

The trouble with water, Giulio Boccaletti reminds us in his sweeping “Water: A Biography,” is that it moves. Rivers flood; rain clouds drift away; oceans rise. When human beings lived as nomadic ...

Note: This is the first of two columns regarding the history of Palisade and Mesa County Irrigation Districts. Whisky is for drinking, as the old dictum says, but water was definitely for fighting ...

It's been more than 20 years since Cynthia Davis wrote the book "Where Water is King," a 100-year history of modern irrigation in California and the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District. The title was ...

Irrigation operators globally face a tough reality with perpetual demands for higher performance alongside water competition, limited finances, and declining infrastructure condition. To adjust to the ...

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 ...

The amount of farmland around the world that will need to be irrigated in order to feed an estimated global population of 9 billion people by 2050 could be up to several billion acres, far higher than ...