There is no question that water use is one of the most pressing issues facing the golf course industry. With many areas of the country dealing with drought conditions, using water to irrigate golf ...

Of all the ways that humans consume water, there is no practice that uses more water than irrigation, which accounts for more than 90% of humanity’s water consumption. While irrigation is necessary to ...

As the area enters a severe drought, irrigation practices can worsen the cycle of depleting freshwater in aquifers.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on May 13 released a report on its investigation of the Salmonella Newport outbreak that caused more than 1,600 reported illnesses in the U.S. and Canada ...

HIGHLIGHTS COMING UP LATER IN SPORTS. LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT WATER QUALITY IN CENTRAL IOWA SHOWED SOME IMPROVEMENT AFTER THE WEEKEND RAIN, ACCORDING TO CENTRAL IOWA WATER WORKS. THE NITRATE ...

An irrigation pivot is seen in a demonstration Thursday at a cornfield farmed by Rob Sladek in Conesville. Sladek can remotely turn the system on and off and irrigates about 10 percent of his crops.