Santiago Maestas has grown apples, peaches, and apricots on his New Mexico property for more than five decades. He still cherishes the network of ancient gravity-fed irrigation ditches that deliver ...

Traditional home irrigation systems don’t think for themselves. You set them to water at certain times, and that’s what they do. “Smart” irrigation controllers automatically adjust the dials based on ...

The clean water that washes over hands in sinks, spinning down the drain just fractions less pure than what came from the tap; laundry water that pumps into waste pipes by the gallon from households ...

INIA, the country’s leading agricultural research institute, is looking to determine if adopting controlled irrigation systems can conserve water, without sacrificing the table grapes' quality.

According to Rory Schmeir, smart irrigation is steadily reshaping how water is managed across ranches, offering a more tailored approach to agricultural water use. Traditional systems often fall short ...

Though preventing leaky canals from losing water doesn't seem like a particularly controversial idea, irrigators in Central Oregon have found out otherwise. The plan appears to be a quintessential ...