Thursday, May 8, 2014

Innovative Ways of Irrigation in Today’s World

Do you remember the last time when your team after winning the football game performed ‘sprinkler dance’. It was a moment to remember. Be it is ‘Sprinklers dance’, or fire safety measures, or for irrigation purposes; sprinklers play an important role in our lives. There are firms looking after this kind of business where they do install, maintain, and service the sprinkler systems. Various functions, which can be performed by type of sprinklers, are:

1. Wet Pipe: These pipes are useful in case of a fire. As there is no risk of freezing, these pipes are highly recommended for fire safety measures.

2. Dry Pipe: These pipes are used as an alternative to wet pipes. These pipes are filled with air pressure and water is held back, and if there is fume of fire, the fall in air pressure results in opening of the valves and water flows into the pipes.
For Under-ground car parking’s, during summers the pipes are filled with water and in winters they are filled with air.

3. Recycling and Deluging: Using a sprinkler is a costly affair; it might be the case that sprinkler is used only for a corner whereas the working of sprinkler in other part results in wastage of gallons of water. So, foam is used in the process as an alternative to water. This system is used for protection of tank farms where sprinklers are working simultaneously. Foam is used in the process as an alternative of water.

4. Irrigation Purposes: Irrigating the agricultural field or golf field can be a tedious task; sprinkles have eased the process largely.

Even Sprinklers have been used by LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department). It is often seen that homeless people sleep on the pathways causing a threat to them as well to the society and as a result, sprinklers are also used as a deterrent against public sleeping on the pathways.

Installation: Sprinklers ease the process of irrigation but system installation of sprinklers is considered a hectic job. The installation time varies from project to project. It might last for hours or it might go up to few days as well. Even there are number of online tutorials available which help in the process of installation of a sprinkler in your backyard or office or golf club.

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