r/Irrigation

33K archived posts · Sep 2010 – Sep 2026

Irrigation - For the landscape and home gardens.

r/Irrigation

This is a place for professionals and non-professionals alike to discuss irrigation. Ask a question, ask for help, show off your work (no advertising), or show us what some idiot did. Just keep it cordial. Check out the user and post flair, and think about adding it to your post. If you receive help from this sub, please let us know how we helped you.

Created Sep 3, 2010

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The Irrigation Reddit

Irrigation - the artificial application of water to the land or soil. It is used to assist in the growing of agricultural crops, maintenance of landscapes, and revegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of inadequate rainfall. Additionally, irrigation also has a few other uses in crop production, which include protecting plants against frost, suppressing weed growth in grain fields and preventing soil consolidation. In contrast, agriculture that relies only on direct rainfall is referred to as rain-fed or dryland farming.

Irrigation systems are also used for dust suppression, disposal of sewage, and in mining. Irrigation is often studied together with drainage, which is the natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given area.

Irrigation has been a central feature of agriculture for over 5000 years, and was the basis of the economy and society of numerous societies, ranging from Asia to Arizona.

Wikipedia: Irrigation

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