Hagen Carroll of the Rogue River Valley Irrigation District monitors distribution of water from a canal in Medford, Ore. A big push is underway in Jackson County and Oregon to replace open-ditch ...

Predictive control techniques, particularly Model Predictive Control (MPC), have emerged as a transformative solution in the management of irrigation canal systems. These methods allow for the ...

Irrigation canal seepage management encompasses the careful assessment and mitigation of water losses through the porous canal beds and banks that characterise many traditional and modern irrigation ...

REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) - In a proactive step toward addressing the critical need for water conservation and infrastructure modernization, two of Oregon's largest irrigation districts, in partnership ...

NACHES, Wash. – The Yakima-Tieton Irrigation Canal, a small-scale engineering wonder cut into the face of soaring basalt cliffs in central Washington, is a precarious and endangered 12-mile channel ...

The Nampa & Meridian Irrigation District has begun diverting water from the Boise River near Barber Park into the Rigenbaugh Canal. Water managers say this is the start of the 2020 irrigation system. ...

Wes Miller, supervising engineering technician with the Turlock Irrigation District, demonstrates a canal gate that greatly increases the accuracy of water measurement to comply with a 2009 state law.

In the desert of central Oregon, east of the Cascade mountains, farmers have been working the arid soil for more than a hundred years. They were lured to the area by turn-of-the-century infrastructure ...

COLEHARBOR, North Dakota — Paul Anderson has dubbed his new irrigation project "Double-0 Seven" -- buts it's not because it’s a secret. In fact, he’d like more people to know that the new irrigation ...

NAMPA, Idaho — The Nampa and Meridian Irrigation District will begin filling its canals April 5, the district announced Thursday. At 3 a.m. on April 5, water will start down the head of the Ridenbaugh ...

Though preventing leaky canals from losing water doesn't seem like a particularly controversial idea, irrigators in Central Oregon have found out otherwise. The plan appears to be a quintessential ...