Drip irrigation applies water through small holes ... It takes energy to treat and pump that freshwater to households—energy whose production contributes to climate change.

Drip irrigation, also known as trickle irrigation ... purchase of essential components such as pipes, emitters, filters, pumps, and controllers. The system's complexity largely determines these ...

And there are more hurdles ahead: The cost of new pipes, pumps and filters could put drip irrigation out of reach for many rice farmers, where profit margins are already razor thin. But demand for ...

The pump drove water through a 48-meter central ... “The system operates in intermittent cyclic pulse drip irrigation mode, with the emitter's flow rate varying as a power function of peak ...

Most applications, however, rely on diesel engines to pump water to the reservoirs. From the beginning, Freling said, he envisioned the project as a drip irrigation system powered by the sun.