Lately, there seems to have been several damaging events involving sprinkler systems. It should be noted by all owners of buildings equipped with automatic sprinklers that these systems are equipped ...

Variable speed drives are transforming modern irrigation by shifting control from valves to pump speed. Instead of running motors at full capacity and throttling flow, the drives adjust motor speed to ...

At the first sign of spring, you might be tempted to turn your sprinkler system on so that your plants and lawn can get a ...

Needham Golf Club is a nine-hole golf facility in Needham, Massachusetts. The golf course has an old irrigation system that did not allow putting greens and their surrounds to be irrigated separately.

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...