SISTERS, Ore. — When Marc Thalacker first walked into Central Oregon’s Three Sisters Irrigation District Office in 1988, he was taken aback. The dilapidated office had no running water, a sputtering ...

Mary Gish, Nevada County Master GardenerFrom The Curious Gardener, Spring 2007Now that spring is here and the majority of the rainy season is over, your plants will have an increased need for water.

As the area enters a severe drought, irrigation practices can worsen the cycle of depleting freshwater in aquifers.

BOISE, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Baseline, the industry leader in intelligent irrigation control systems, announced a series of new software and hardware products and solutions that dramatically advance ...

Of all the ways that humans consume water, there is no practice that uses more water than irrigation, which accounts for more than 90% of humanity’s water consumption. While irrigation is necessary to ...

An irrigation pivot is seen in a demonstration Thursday at a cornfield farmed by Rob Sladek in Conesville. Sladek can remotely turn the system on and off and irrigates about 10 percent of his crops.

The cooler, wet March has allowed a brief delay in the start of irrigation season the Gem County, but with temperatures starting to push into the 70s, that’s about to change. Water began flowing into ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- With warming spring weather and the start of the growing season, the City of Bend wants to remind the community of the importance of “slowing the flow” when it comes to outdoor ...

The new S. J. Quinney College of Law building on the University of Utah campus features a combination of innovative ideas to form one original, state-of-the-art engineered system. At the foundation of ...

The number of surface flow minor irrigation schemes dropped by nearly 9,000 in seven years since 2006-07, resulting in growing dependence on groundwater for agricultural purposes, a government census ...