Mother Nature always comes with surprises, and although weather is forecasted, one can never prevent disasters from happening. Floods in the Midwest for example, have delayed the planting of many crops and destroyed them as well. The rise in environmental problems such as agricultural flooding has a catastrophic impact of great concern to farmers so tile drainage has been suggested to more or less improve the problem. Flooding in the Midwest is expected to increase in the upcoming future, therefore farmers should try to find the solution before it’s too late and they start losing more agriculture. Installing tile drainage systems on farming land isn’t a bad idea at all considering that the investment pays off in the end because it prepares the land for earlier planting and harvesting, and not only that, but companies use modern equipment in order to be accurate on the installation of this great system which helps improve the farmlands and helps get rid of most of the destruction of crops.
Soil in damaged land that has too much water must be drained in order to ensure crop efficiency. Plants need specific water and oxygen levels in order to absorb the right nutrients. The overall purpose of tile drainage is to remove excess water from the soil to enhance crop production and remove water that sits on the land surface. A network of pipes that flow into the tile line and then deposit into a lake, pond or river are installed underground. Tile drainages would be installed in areas that have been damaged or are in danger of suffering of serious floods. It would be ideal if tile drainages were to be installed in all farm areas, regardless if that specific area gets rainfall or not. Overall, managed systems provide positive impact during...
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...e also custom engineered so they can meet your needs such as budget, soil type and even future tile plans. Companies also use your old tile system and incorporate it into a new design just so farmers can keep their previous investment. If all of those benefits aren’t convincing maybe the guarantee for a certain time period might! Most tile drainage companies offer a guarantee that helps a lot with these systems.
Tile drainage overall helps attain a good season, even when Mother Nature isn’t. It also continues to be an important practice for farmers. These systems continue to bring good benefits to agricultural lands. Some of the many advantages as mentioned before are earlier and timelier planting, less soil complication, land values increase, crops receive more oxygen, and even when installing them you get great GPS mapping to know where the tiles are located.
As Jensen points out, farming and industry accounts for the vast majority of total water usage in the world (477). The increasingly scarce resource is a necessary ingredient when growing food. Technology continuously improves to make it easier for farmers to grow crops while using less water. Scientists at the University of Georgia utilize what they term “variable rate irrigation” to let farmers automate the current systems of irrigation to water only the crops that need it (Gies). This is an example of retrofitting current farms, but there is a new way of farming coming to cities that reuses practically all of its water and stakes claim much less acreage in the process. The future of agriculture belongs to vertical and urban farming. These types of farms reduce the use of water, chemicals (such as pesticides, herbicides and fungicides), soil and space (The Economist). These farms are so cutting edge that they are mostly in the experimental stages. Firms like Famgro farms are testing “stackable” farming systems that can scale with demand, even further reducing waste. Famgro’s stackable farms are ideal for cityscapes where land is at a premium; furthermore, reaping the added benefit of being in close proximity to the customers that they serve. Customers will enjoy high quality, fresh produce at only a slightly
In order for Scotts Bluff County to maintain these exceptional production rates, several different factors come into play for contributing to the successful outcome of the crop production in this area. One factor that plays an important role in the production is the amount of water resources that are available in Scotts Bluff County. If farmers are unable to get the quantity of water necessary to grow their crops, the crops will begin to suffer damage, resulting in a lower rate of crop production and profit. Therefore, in ...
Fields being flooded during sowing & reaping of rice/paddy—mostly contributed by countries in Asia as rice is grown here and is the staple food of people
Most of water consumed in China is not rationally used. The cause which intensifies the water shortage in China is water inefficient use. For instance, 65%-70% of Chinese water usage is spent on agricultural needs, but more than half of this amount evaporates percolates and loses (Roberts 2009). Besides, majority of another 20%-25% which is occupied by China’s industry is not recycled (Brown 2008a, 16; Roberts 2009). Obviously, improving water distribution technologies and management quality can be one of the options to reduce the water scarcity in China. There are many different methods of improving the water distribution efficiency. Firstly, irrigation technologies should be improved. Farmers in China may use drip and shrink irrigation methods instead of traditional “surface” ones such as furrow and flood irrigation. Drip irrigation method is used mostly in arid and semi-arid zones and it increases the efficiency of irrigation by transporting the water directly to the roots of irrigated plant. The emitters sprinkle the soil under the roots with water which is introduced to the plant by pipes, diminishing water evaporation, deep percolation and leak. In contrast, fur...
The idea of retrofitting suds into existing developments was introduced to tackle the problems assiocated with traditional drainage systems which were designed to convey stormwater from the devlopents to receiving enviorments as quickily as possible to minimize flooding at the development. These however cause enviormental problems in receiving enviorments
Storm Water Drainage: This is simply the water from rain, melted snow, etc. draining into
This is a job for people who like to work with their hands. Who like to dress up in biohazard suits and carry lanterns around in dark sewers underground. Also gets to carry a lot of inspection and sample tools.
The lack of water has caused an increased demand in the drilling of wells, which create even more problems with water shortage. “‘ If you own your own property, you can dig a well and you can pump as much groundwater as as you a want…” (Source 3). This shows the problem of over usage of what little water there is. The wells dug at the edge of properties drain and steal water from the surrounding estates. By doing this, you do not know the amount being drained from the aquifer. “‘Groundwater is like a bank account. You can’t take out more than you put in on an ongoing basis,’” (Source 3). The unwatched drainage of water by farmers can empty out an entire aquifer if it is not filled back
Water purification and a wastewater treatment plants would be necessary in order to provide the citizens and visitors with clean healthy water. To prevent flooding, this city was built on flood plains.
Above, is a quote from a man recovered from an article of writing back in the ancient Egyptian times. Irrigation is a form of re-routing water, to parts of land that the water is needed, in farming terms. For Example, there are two crops, one crop is getting all the water, and it’s flooding. With irrigation, the farmer will re-route the water towards the other crop, as well as sharing the water with the crop that was being flooded. So now, both crops are getting enough water and they are not flooding nor suffering from drought.
Also the land has to perk which means the land is not too wet and is safe for a structure and allows a septic tank to be installed that will function properly.
For many years, it was believed that the occurrence of surface runoff was primarily controlled by the infiltration characteristics of the ground; whenever the rainfall rate exceeds or surpasses the soil's infiltration capacity, runoff is generated. Horton (1933, 1940) was responsible for some of the early foundational work for this concept and hence the process is referred to as Hortonian runoff. Horton (1943) also recognized that surface runoff rarely occurs on soils well protected by forest cover due to “somewhat unusual conditions”.
The urbanization process in Tabor sub city Hawassa will bring about adverse effects in urban storm drainage infrastructure management. The current administrative structure of the city of Hawassa is that it is divided into eight sub-cities. The study will focus on the evaluation of urban storm drainage management and detailed discussion on the urban drainage management, operation and maintenance in the specified area of study.
12. B. Hanson and D. May, “Effect of subsurface drip irrigation on processing tomato yield, water table depth, soil salinity, and profitability”, Agricultural Water Management, Vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 1-17, July, 2004.
Saline soil is also vulnerable to erosion due to the death of vegetation that held the soil together. Soil that is eroded can ‘pollute’ water too.