Water filtration systems, methods, and maintenance for drip irrigation
I’ve watched a farmer spend $4,000 on a drip system and $120 on a filter, then spend the next three months unclogging emitters by hand. He’d poke them with a thumbtack, one by one, every four days. The filter he…
I watched a tomato grower in Almería, Spain drain 4,000 liters of irrigation water into a gully behind her greenhouse and thought: that’s not runoff, that’s a second paycheck going down the drain. Greenhouse water recycling isn’t some lab experiment…
I’ve seen it too many times. A farmer spends two weekends installing a drip irrigation system, gets the pressure dialed in, watches the first few cycles work perfectly, and then three months later half the emitters are plugged and the…
