The purpose of irrigation systems is obvious: Plants need water, and people aren’t always around to provide it. I realized this fact when a wildfire engulfed my rural California neighborhood in August ...

What is the best type of irrigation? If you ask three different people you may well get three different answers. But I expect a lot of you are wondering about this as you look at your water bills and ...

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 ...