Smart Water Application Technologies Initiative

Smart Water Application Technology is a partner of water suppliers and irrigation companies devoted to improving landscape water efficiency with innovative technology.

Advanced "smart" irrigation controllers use climate and soil moisture sensors to adjust the watering, supply the appropriate amount of water at the right time, keep the plants healthy and not wasted.

Introduce products and practices that bring measurable improvements in outdoor water efficiency to landscape and irrigation specialists

Implement a community incentive program to encourage homeowners and other maritime users to adopt smart technology

Intelligent irrigation controller is a new technological innovation and attracting national attention. There is great interest in the possibilities of these devices to improve irrigation water management and a wide range of alliances of partners gathered to ensure that technology fulfills expectations and is successfully introduced to the market. The Smart Water Utilization Technology (SWAT) program is an international public project / irrigation industry program designed to achieve excellent landscape water efficiency through application of irrigation technology. SWAT identifies, studies and encourages innovation and related management methods to promote effective water use principles. The SWAT process also includes industry expert groups and irrigation equipment suppliers, in cooperation with major water suppliers by the Irrigation Association (IA).

Various methods of management and irrigation techniques can be used to increase the efficiency of water used in irrigated agriculture (see "Efficiency of irrigation water"). Improvement of irrigation usually involves upgrading to a physical application system with improved field application efficiency and potential potential. In order to maximize the possibilities of the physical system, it may be necessary to improve water management methods such as irrigation planning and water flow measurement. Furthermore, the management of drainage flow can be an important problem in many irrigated areas (Table 4.6.1). In some cases, the effectiveness of improved irrigation methods can be improved by combining with other agricultural methods such as conservation cultivation and nutrition management.

In agriculture, farmers in the Eastern Cape Province use technology to track how much each plant is needed and to use the appropriate drip irrigation to supply water to them. In agricultural areas like Kouga, these technologies use 60% less water. Drought is also a major problem in the United States, Water Pigeon monitors water usage using automatic monitoring technology, and won the MIT Innovation Award Pipeguard Robotics uses a specially designed robot to monitor municipal pipeline Detect leaks. Both companies are part of a domestic accelerator called Imagine H20 specially designed to cope with water shortage.