Water Conservation
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In the March 2023 issue of the Municipal Sewer and Water magazine, Luke, the editor, has an editorial that is titled “Saving for a Sunny Day“. I have always thought that we need to find ways to store water when it rains so it is available when it is dry. Luke, discusses how some new…
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Managing water is a unique thing, in really wet times we have to figure out how to best capture what we need and then release the rest while trying to figure out how to keep too much water from resulting in floods. in really dry times, how do we manage the lack or water or…
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One of the sessions this week at the Georgia Environmental Conference was titled “Golf Course BMPs”. The speakers were Chris Steigelman, President of the GA Chapter of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) at the Landings Club, Scott Griffith at the UGA Golf Course, Gary L. Hawkins, UGA Crop and Soil Sciences with…
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Water is one of those things that gets recycled and recycled and recycled and I could go on and on. Have you ever heard that the water we are drinking today was also drank by the dinosaurs? Image from https://www.redbubble.com/i/coasters/Boba-drinking-dinosaur-by-Ginge297/54007707.E5I3N As such finding ways to recycle water is and has been part of what some…
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Rain barrels are used to catch rainwater from roofs and stores that water for use later. And article in the International Erosion Control magazine Environmental Connection tells about how the Anderson Soil and Water Conservation District in South Carolina runs an event that educates people on how to build rain barrels and have fun. The…
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If you are interested in protecting rivers and waterbodies in the State of Georgia, one way to do that is to find and join a Rivers Alive Group or start your own. Rivers Alive is a program administered out of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division Outreach Program. There are many different…
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Water conservation is something we do not always think about in that a drip here and a drip there does not seem like much, but in a city that can add up to potentially millions of gallons annually. In urban areas where the water comes from a water treatment plant, that means more water coming…
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In the July issue of Fruit Growers News, there is an article that goes over some of the issues growers in California are having to get water and some of the practices they are using to capture water for reuse. Some of the practices being used are converting from flood irrigation to drip irrigation and…
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Conserving water made easy with soil moisture sensors. Read how farmers in Arkansas are using technology to conserve water resources.
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On October 3-6, 2018, Dr. Gary Hawkins attended the Global Water Security Conference for Agriculture and Natural Resources in Hyderabad, Telangana, India which was sponsored by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) along with the Indian Society of Engineers (ISAE). The conference was used as a platform to discuss water issues included: Wasted…