Industry pros to lead irrigation workshops

- Spring 1999 "Update" Newsletter Article -

Wateright guide to expand
to northwestern states

I nternet-based irrigation scheduling is expanding this year as CIT broadens application of its new Wateright program from California to four northwestern states.

CIT Director David Zoldoske has announced that Wateright will be available for developing irrigation scheduling guidelines in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, as well as in California this spring. Wateright is an interac- tive web site that serves as a tutorial and scheduling guide for irrigation of home landscapes, golf courses, parks and agricultural crops. The program combines the ease of World Wide Web interface with sophisticated software that can process specific data and return a customized irrigation scheduling guideline to the user.

To obtain scheduling guidelines for a particular irrigation operation, the user must provide information about that system. Once Wateright has the necessary data, it uses crop coefficients and local weather data to determine an appropriate guideline for that system.

Through a technology partnership with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, CIT now has access to weather data from the four states previously mentioned. Using that weather data and information provided by users, Wateright can pro-duce irrigation scheduling guides for systems in those areas.

The program works with virtually all types of irrigation systems, Zoldoske said. A complete explanation of the Wateright program is on the web site, located at www.wateright.org.

For more information, call CIT at (559) 278-2066.

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