What Do You Mean Drip Irrigation is Inefficient? Water Application vs. Water Use Efficiency

Description

Format: Recorded Session – available 24/7

• IA – 1 CEU
• NJ – 1 WC CEC
• NCICLB Course #12203- 1 Irrigation CEU
• ORLCB – 1 CEH
• QWEL – 1 CEU
• FNGLA – 1 CEU

Instructor: Kurt Thompson

While the belief that drip emitters apply water at the highest uniformity of any standard irrigation emission device is accurate, connecting that to the efficiency of drip emitters is not valid. In fact, the efficiency of many, if not most, drip zones in landscape beds are not any better than traditional overhead irrigation. This is mostly the result of not being aware of the science of drip irrigation during design and installation and the neglect of maintaining the components and adjusting the scheduling.

This highly interactive 1-hour workshop gives the designer, contractor, or manager the understanding that uniformity and efficiency while related, are two distinctly different measurements and how they are measured. The training uses real-world examples to apply the science of irrigation using innovative and sound methods.