http://wateruseitwisely.com/blog/articles/water-use-it-wisely-founder-named-2010-ad-person-of-the-year Using Water. Wisely. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:22:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://wateruseitwisely.com/blog/articles/water-use-it-wisely-founder-named-2010-ad-person-of-the-year/comment-page-1#comment-1382 David Collyer Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:00:56 +0000 http://wateruseitwisely.com/blog/?p=1353#comment-1382 I wrote a paper and did a DVD on how to manage an irrigation system for a 3,500 sq. ft. garden[ours] which showed that only two cubic meters of water, per day doing our summer dry season, was sufficent to provide one inch of water per week. This proper watering amount was half of the amount that our irrigation contractor told us to do in order to provid the 1" of water per week. Are there any studies which you know of that would be in the same area of proper irrigation system operation? I wrote a paper and did a DVD on how to manage an irrigation system for a 3,500 sq. ft. garden[ours] which showed that only two cubic meters of water, per day doing our summer dry season, was sufficent to provide one inch of water per week. This proper watering amount was half of the amount that our irrigation contractor told us to do in order to provid the 1″ of water per week. Are there any studies which you know of that would be in the same area of proper irrigation system operation?

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