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| Author(s): | Sovocool, Kent |
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| Author Affiliation: | Senior Conservation Research Analyst, MAS, CLIA, Southern Nevada Water Authority, Las Vegas, NV |
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| Title: | Estimating annual water demands from irrigation flow rates |
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| Section: | Landscape
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| Meeting Info.: | Long Beach, California: December 3-7, 2018 |
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| Source: | Irrigation Show 2018: Technical Session Proceedings. 2018, 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: Irrigation rates; Irrigation requirements; Irrigation monitoring; Water conservation
Author-Supplied Keywords: Turf/landscape (residential); Water manager; Water provider; Water conservation; Design; Auditing; Standards; Water budget; RICI
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| Abstract/Contents: | "Landscape design is widely recognized as influencing sites water demands. While continually developing, green efficiency programs, standards and codes now often include various design criteria for new landscapes with a goal of promoting water efficiency. These are typically one of two types, water budgeting-based or founded on restrictions on plantings. Both of these have pros, but also significant cons, and are not easily worked into a framework that relies on auditors with limited site visit time and lack of expertise in evaluating plantings. Ideally a metric that integrates aspects of landscape design in an easy, robust, repeatable manner that is linked to water use is needed. In some startling findings, the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) demonstrates that for singlefamily home sites, all of these considerations can be considered summarized within a single metric that expresses and, even predicts within a range, likely annual irrigation use. Totalizing flow rates of all stations and normalizing this and comparing this to submeter usage reveals this relationship in the Southwest. Even more surprising, the relationship holds nationally when data from the Residential End Uses of Water Version 2 is examined. For a recent specification, RESNET's HERSH2O water efficiency rating, this has been developed and introduced as an optional method for demonstrating outdoor efficient design and is a points opportunity in that standard. For this purpose, the measure is area normalized and defined as the Residential Irrigation Capacity Index (RICI) where each change in RICI equates to a 10% change in outdoor use relative to a baseline condition. In this presentation, the author explains the development of this new metric and its advantages in rating the water efficiency of new homes landscape designs and irrigation systemsfrom a water conservation perspective." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 5 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Sovocool, K. 2018. Estimating annual water demands from irrigation flow rates. p. 1-13. In Irrigation Show 2018: Technical Session Proceedings. Long Beach, California: December 3-7, 2018. [Falls Church, Virginia]: [Irrigation Association]. |
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