1. The World Bank Land and Poverty Conference is glad to welcome poster session presenters. You have been selected by the land conference team to present your poster to an interested audience at the conference.
The posters will be on display at the Atrium of the World Bank main building on the whole Tuesday March 21 and Wednesday March 22.
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Please view the instructions on the conference website on how to upload poster in your Conftool account. The deadline for submitting your poster is 11:59 PM on February 22, 2017 (Eastern Standard Time).
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2. Weather-Based Irrigation Control in the Cloud
Michael Davidson
Davidson Consultants
Introduction
Evidence indicates that Weather-Based Irrigation Controllers (WBICs) are effective tools for optimizing irrigation water consumption. WBICs are promoted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as a tool for water conservation for commercial and residential settings. This research infers that these controllers can be used as cost-effective tools for optimizing water delivery systems for agricultural in the Least Developed countries. This unit also has the capacity to store and use climate data, programming data, flow management data and all performance histories. This case study illustrates the efficacy of WBICs as proposed for use in the Camrosa Irrigation District in California in the United States and suggests that similar outcomes and measures of water-use efficiency can be replicated. The WBIC under study is the Weathermatic Smartline® controller which is a stand-alone or cloud-based system appropriate for all scales. The Smartline® unit is also capable of being powered as a 12vDC unit by solar batteries.
Results
Conclusions
The El Segundo facility reported an overall reduction in irrigation water consumption of 37% when compared with the previous ten-year average. One park at the facility reported an increase of 7% water use but it was late determined that in the previous two years the controller at that park was turned off for the three months of the winter.
The controller successfully turned off valves when high flow conditions were detected but it was not possible to determine how much water was saved
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