This subject contains a 3 day Compulsory Residential School.
The residential school provides hands on approaches to the theory taught.
There are lectures, tutorials, laboratory practicals and field trips to Irrigation areas.
This subject provides an introduction to soil-water-plant-atmosphere relationship and soil moisture measurement techniques for irrigation scheduling. A study of open channel and pipe hydraulics and its application to study the principles of gravity, drip, and sprinkler irrigation. Recycled water and wastewater use for irrigation.
* Offering has a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
HD/FL
One session
School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences
Students in Post Graduate degrees cannot enrol in this subject, they should enrol into IRR400 which is the post graduate equivalent.
IRR400
Irrigation: World and Australian Context
Irrigation and global food security, irrigation in the Australian context, irrigation productivity and irrigation sustainability;
Soil-Plant-Water-Atmosphere Relations
Soil-plant-water relations, soil moisture measurement, crop water requirement, irrigation water requirement and irrigation scheduling;
Open Channel and Pipe Hydraulics
Open channel hydraulics, pipe line hydraulics and irrigation pumps
Irrigation Systems
Irrigation system layout, surface (gravity) irrigation methods, surface irrigation performance, sprinkle irrigation, microirrigation, waste and recycled water use;
Environmental impacts of irrigation
This subject contains a 3 day Compulsory Residential School.
The residential school provides hands on approaches to the theory taught.
There are lectures, tutorials, laboratory practicals and field trips to Irrigation areas.
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The information contained in the 2018 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: August 2018. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.