what is drip irrigation?

Answer 1

Drip irrigation is routing a slow continuous flow of water to each individual plant or area. The alternative is broadcast irrigation which is spraying water over large areas. Drip irrigation uses less water because less is lost to evaporation.

Answer 2

Drip irrigation also known as trickle irrigation or microirrigation is an irrigation method that applies water slowly to the roots of plants, by depositing the water either on the soil surface or directly to the root zone, through a network of valves, pipes, tubing, and emitters. The goal is to minimize water usage. Drip irrigation may also use devices called micro-spray heads, which spray water in a small area, instead of emitters. These are generally used on tree and vine crops. Subsurface drip irrigation or SDI uses permanently or temporarily buried dripperline or drip tape. It is becoming more widely used for row crop irrigation especially in areas where water supplies are limited.

Answer 3

Drip irrigation used less water than traditional irrigation methods.... it's basically a hose with tiny little holes in it, which is placed at the base of crops. It uses much less water because pretty much all of the water actually gets to the plant, unlike traditional irriation which sprays the water into the air, where it evaporates, gets on the leaves of the plant, etc, and only about 15-20 percent of the water is actually used for plant growth. With drip irrigation methods it's closer to 100 percent.

Answer 4

Basically, there are 2 types of drip irrigation as experienced in Australia since the advent of European occupation.

Type one was developed by short-sighted individuals who only saw the Dollar (in those days the Pound) as the end result of setting up irrigation systems based on the profligate use of any source of water they came across. These irrigators we call Drips as they established the types of water wastage systems we are trying to get our agricultaural sectors to replace with the more economical type two drip irrigation systems.

The old style Drip irrigation systems include, but are not limited to:-
-Sucking nearby creeks, streams and rivers dry with immense
pumping systems;
-Diverting river flows into farm dams bigger than Sydney
Harbour just to grow cotton in areas that are renowned for low
rain fall, e.g. Cubby Station in inland Queensland, instead of
growing it in areas that get the annual 'Wet', e.g. Northern
Territory;
-Allowing the Great Artesian Basin to be pumped out to such
an extent that it is in danger of running dry - once thought to
have been an impossibilty;
- Setting up irrigation channels where water is transported in
uncoverd ditches and canals where as much as 60% of what
water is transported is lost to evaporation and seepage.

Type two uses primarily plastic tubing that is designed to deliver only the optimum amount of water to the plants that need it by dripping it around the root zone. This system was developed by the Israelis and is renowned as making the deserts bloom. However, they are rapidly draining their inland water bodies to do so.

Answer 5

a system of tubes with small holes that allow water to drip out onto the root zone of plants. A water-conserving irrigation system.
The practice of spraying water directly on the base of plants so that less water is needed to help them grow
An efficient and targeted form of irrigation in which water is delivered in drops directly to the plants roots at specific rates.
A method of watering plants using hoses and emitters with small holes through which water drips.
Drip Irrigation is the broad term used to describe all of the techniques used to apply a small amount of water directly at the point of use. Drip irrigation was originally developed in desert areas to conserve water. The advantage over sprinklers is the reduction of water wasted to evaporation and applied to areas away from the desired plants. On a windy day with low humidity, most of a sprinkler system's water may evaporate. Also called micro irrigation.

Answer 6

Pressure at a hose spigot is 50-100 psi, you would need a pressure reducer if you did it that way. Drip irrigation only takes 10-30 psi, make sure to keep water in the barrel make sure the rain barrel is placed higher than the ground to force the water down.

Answer 7

that's when you get some "wet" guy/ or gal (still 'drippin') to water your garder,,, duh. Also , of course; all of the above.. except it is not sprayed it is dripped at low pressure thru small holed emitters near the base of whatever to optimize water use in areas where environmental whack-oo's and water district natzies conspire to raise water rates so high that the poor farmers can only afford the minimum amount of water.. If we had better, and less greedy, water conservationist, we could water any way that would be best for the plants in question, because; there is 10 times more water fall every day than required to water every plant and animal on earth for a week.

Answer 8

drip irrigations use undeground or above ground hoses with drip heads to save water .mejores mangueras para ahorrar agua en el jardin

Answer 9

Drip irrigation was used in ancient times by filling buried clay pots with water and allowing the water to gradually seep into the soil. Modern drip irrigation began its development in Germany in 1860 when researchers began experimenting with subirrigation using clay pipe to create combination irrigation and drainage systems. In 1913, E.B. House at Colorado State University succeeded in applying water to the root zone of plants without raising the water table. Perforated pipe was introduced in Germany in the 1920s and in 1934, O.E. Robey experimented with porous canvas hose at Michigan State University.


Drip irrigation in New Mexico vineyard, 2002. Photo by Jeff Vanuga, USDA Natural Resources Conservation ServiceWith the advent of modern plastics during and after World War II, major improvements in drip irrigation became possible. Plastic microtubing and various types of emitters began to be used in the greenhouses of Europe and the United States. A new technology of drip irrigation was then introduced in Israel by Simcha Blass and his son Yeshayahu. Instead of releasing water through tiny holes, blocked easily by tiny particles, water was released through larger and longer passageways by using friction to slow water inside a plastic emitter. The first experimental system of this type was established in 1959 in Israel by Blass, where he developed and patented the first practical surface drip irrigation emitter. This method was very successful and subsequently spread to Australia, North America, and South America by the late 1960s. In the United States, in the early 1960s, the first drip tape, called Dew Hose, was developed by Richard Chapin of Chapin Watermatics (first system established at 1964). [1] Beginning in 1989, Jain irrigation toiled and struggled to pioneer water-management through Drip Irrigation in India. Jain irrigation have successfully introduced some hi-tech. concepts to Indian agriculture such as `Integrated System Approach’, One-Stop-Shop for Farmer, `Infrastructure Status to Drip Irrigation & Farm as Industry

Answer 10

THE TECHNIQUE OF WATERING PLANTS WITH THE HELP OF NARROW TUNINGS WHICH DELIVER WATER DIRECTLY AT THE BASE OF THE PLANT IS CALLED AS DRIP IRRIGATION. THIS WILL HELP YOU VERY MUCH IF YOUR EXAM IS TOMORROW. LOL!☺😊😄😀😁🔚