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| Web URL(s): | http://www.irrigation.org/IA/FileUploads/IA/Resources/TechnicalPapers/2012/InvalidSubstantiationForTheEPAWatersenseWBICProgram.pdf
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| Author(s): | Davidson, Michael |
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| Author Affiliation: | Ph.D. Candidate, Claremont Graduate University and Spec Management Group, Altadena, CA |
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| Title: | Invalid substantiation for the EPA WaterSense® WBIC program |
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| Section: | Turf
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| Source: | Irrigation Show 2012: Technical Session Proceedings. 2012, p. [1-13]. |
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| Publishing Information: | [Falls Church, Virginia]: [Irrigation Association] |
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| # of Pages: | 13 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Climate-based controllers; Evaluations; Evapotranspiration; Irrigation controllers; Irrigation efficiency; USEPA; Water conservation
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| Business Name: | WaterSense |
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| Abstract/Contents: | "There are 40.5 million acres of irrigated turf lawn in the United States making grass more widely irrigated that the eight following irrigated crops combined (Diep, 2011). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) WaterSense program for weather-based irrigation controllers (WBIC) is designed to promote and enhance the market for commercial and residential irrigation controllers that create or modify irrigation schedules based on landscape attributes and real-time weather by labeling efficient irrigation system control technologies. The EPA anticipates, in full consideration of the research studies on weather-based controllers, realizing, on average, at least 15% saving of applied irrigation water after installation of weather-based irrigation controllers (EPA, 2009). This paper asks if the EPA can empirically and reliably infer from the data provided by the research studies cited by the EPA that WBICs save >15% more water than traditional controllers for its nationally, targeted population. A meta-analysis of these studies shows evidence that the data cited by the EPA cannot be generalized for the purpose of providing a reference point for the EPA WaterSense program and the assumptions of the EPA regarding the potential savings of WBICs are invalid." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 16 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Davidson, M. 2012. Invalid substantiation for the EPA WaterSense® WBIC program. p. [1-13]. In Irrigation Show 2012: Technical Session Proceedings. [Falls Church, Virginia]: [Irrigation Association]. |
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