Irrigation Management

Overview

The Irrigation Management course from Warnborough College develops students’ abilility to participate in design and operation of large scale irrigation systems for agricultural applications.

Course Aims

• Explain different factors which cause water to be wasted

• Determine where water is wasted, in both the operation and management of a specified irrigation system

• Determine changes to achieve more efficient water usage, in a specified system.

• Develop guidelines for determining when to irrigate in a particular situation.

• Determine through an analysis, when to irrigate on a studied site, by evaluating soil moisture and other characteristics of a site, periodically over two months, and referencing annual rainfall statistics over a period of years.

• Record in a log book, plant growth and soil moisture for an existing irrigation system operated using two different watering patterns, each for one month, and over two consecutive months.

• Compare differences in varying the scheduling of a watering system over two months

• Prepare an irrigation schedule for a specific garden or crop.

• Develop criteria for designing a specified drainage system.

• Explain the design criteria for a specified drainage requirement.

• Devise strategies for dealing with drainage requirements in emergencies

• Determine appropriate drainage requirements for a specified situation, and over a specified area

• Evaluate the operation of a drainage system, installed under irrigation on a site studied by the learner.