Irrigation water
Do you have irrigation water where you live? We do, and I think it is great. We have water supplied from the river that comes through canals with pumps that give it enough pressure to make it to my lawn. I had never really seen this system used for residential areas until we moved here and it is quite amazing with all the miles of canals some are wide, some aren't and some paved and some are just ditches. It is pretty inexpensive too. We pay an annual fee and have the water supplied from April to October. A nearby neighborhood isn't hooked up to the irrigation water so they use city water for their lawn and some friends of ours that live there said that their bill for a couple of months could be what we pay for the whole year.
The local farmers love it too I am sure. We don't get much rain so most of the farming done around here depends totally on irrigation water. When you think of a field on a farm do you usually think of a square plot of land? For most farmers around here that use irrigation water, they plant their fields in circles with the huge irrigation sprinklers going around. It is quite a different looking site to see from the air when coming in on a plane.
The local farmers love it too I am sure. We don't get much rain so most of the farming done around here depends totally on irrigation water. When you think of a field on a farm do you usually think of a square plot of land? For most farmers around here that use irrigation water, they plant their fields in circles with the huge irrigation sprinklers going around. It is quite a different looking site to see from the air when coming in on a plane.
posted by whaaaat! at
7:42 AM
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In a nearby city (we are on the west coast of Florida and very close to the Gulf of Mexico [and have actual sea gulls]) they reclaim sewage, clean and refine it and sell it back to the community for use on lawns, golf courses, etc. Hmmmmm.
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Joe, at 6:11 AM
We use the city water system, which costs us about $50.00 per month. We have a pond in the back of our house; we've kidded about buying a pump and bringing it into the house.
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Fred, at 7:53 AM
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