Evaporation

Suspended Structures

Storage dam evaporation control

Shade structures in general are suspended above the water surface using cables.

Fact Sheet
National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
2011
NPSI911
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Evaporation & Seepage Monitoring

Pressure sensitive transducers (PSTs) can be used to precisely measure water depth and therefore accurately determine the seepage and evaporation losses from water storages.

Fact Sheet
National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
2011
NPSI711
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Don’t let water saving potential evaporate

Evaporation accounts for the biggest water losses in the nation, which means the potential shown from recent evaporation research and development, involving on-farm and major storage trials, should continue to be explored.

22 February, 2011
National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
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Evaporation and Seepage

Moria Farming - Forest Hill

The National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture (NCEA) recently undertook seepage and evaporation measurements at water storages for a mixed horticulture farm at Forest Hill in the Lockyer Valley. This is a fact sheet about those measurements.

Fact Sheet
National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
2011
NPSI1011
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Water Storage Evaporation

A large proportion of irrigation research is understandably aimed at efficient use of water extracted from storages for food production but attention is also given to reducing losses that occur through evaporation. We have gathered together all our evaporation research projects, reports, facts sheets and links to other relevant information below. Projects (more)...