Horticulture
Water Solutions for Horticulture
Water quality and irrigation management are critical across commercial horticulture, from orchards and permanent crops through to intensive growing operations. Source-water conditions, dissolved oxygen, storage and distribution can all influence how effectively water moves through the production system.
Water Challenges in Dairy Operations
Horticultural production depends on reliable water from the source through storage, treatment and irrigation. Managing water quality across this system helps maintain consistent irrigation and dependable production infrastructure.
Irrigation Water Quality
Water chemistry, dissolved minerals and other source-water conditions can affect the quality of water entering irrigation systems and reaching the crop.
Water Through the Farm System
Water quality can change through storage, pipework and irrigation infrastructure, where biofilm and other water-quality issues may develop.
Dams & Stored Water
Farm dams and stored water can experience changing oxygen levels and water-quality conditions that need to be managed as part of the wider irrigation system.
Irrigation Water Quality
& Root-Zone Delivery
Water used for irrigation can vary considerably depending on its source. Dissolved minerals, low dissolved oxygen and other water-quality conditions can affect the water entering the irrigation network and ultimately reaching the crop.
Improving Water Before Irrigation
Treating irrigation water before distribution allows water-quality issues to be addressed as part of the production system. Nanobubble oxygenation can be incorporated to increase dissolved oxygen within irrigation water and support oxygen delivery through the irrigation system.
Conditioning Irrigation Water
Where source-water characteristics require additional treatment, SolAqua can be incorporated as part of the horticultural water-treatment approach. The treatment configuration is selected around the incoming water and the requirements of the irrigation system.
Nanobubble Oxygenation
Oxygenation of irrigation water for horticultural production.
SolAqua
Water conditioning for horticultural irrigation systems.
Biofilm & Irrigation Infrastructure
Water quality needs to be maintained beyond the source. As irrigation water moves through tanks, pipework and irrigation infrastructure, biofilm and other deposits can develop within the system and affect ongoing water management.
Managing Biofilm Through the System
Biofilm can establish within irrigation lines and other wetted infrastructure. Nanobubble treatment can be incorporated inline as part of the horticultural water-management approach where biofilm control is required.
Protecting Irrigation Infrastructure
Managing water through the distribution system helps maintain the condition of irrigation infrastructure from storage through to delivery. Treatment is selected around the water source, irrigation configuration and the specific water-quality issues present.
Air Diffusers
Aeration and circulation for farm dams and stored irrigation water.
Solar & Battery
Supporting power for horticultural water and pumping infrastructure.
Oxygenated Irrigation
for Almond Production
Almond production places significant demands on the root zone, where water movement, soil conditions and oxygen availability all interact. Solari’s almond resource explores the role of dissolved oxygen within irrigation water and how nanobubble oxygenation can be incorporated into orchard irrigation systems.
Water, Oxygen & the Root Zone
The resource looks at conditions that can reduce oxygen availability around almond roots, including repeated irrigation, compaction and slow-draining soils. It also examines the use of nanobubble-infused irrigation to deliver dissolved oxygen through the irrigation network and into the root-zone environment.
Rather than applying the resource’s stated yield, ROI or disease-control figures as general performance claims, it provides useful supporting information for growers considering oxygenation as part of their irrigation water-management approach.
Oxygen-Powered Growth for Almonds
Explore Solari’s resource on nanobubble oxygenation, irrigation water and root-zone management in almond production.
Nanobubble Oxygenation for Citrus
Explore Solari’s resource on irrigation water, dissolved oxygen and nanobubble applications in citrus production.
Oxygenated Irrigation
for Citrus Production
Citrus irrigation systems need to manage water from storage through distribution and into the root zone. Solari’s citrus resource explores how nanobubble oxygenation can be integrated into drip and micro-irrigation systems, reservoirs, tanks and channels to increase oxygen availability within irrigation water.
From Water Source to Root Zone
The resource considers oxygenation at different points within the irrigation system, including treatment at the water source and inline treatment before delivery to the orchard. It also examines the relationship between irrigation water, dissolved oxygen and root-zone conditions in established citrus production.
This provides citrus growers with supporting information for assessing where oxygenation could form part of their wider irrigation and water-management approach, without treating the eBook’s stated production benefits as guaranteed outcomes.
Better Water for Horticultural Production
From irrigation water and root-zone delivery through to farm dams and distribution infrastructure,
Solari Water and Energy can develop a water-treatment approach around your crop, water source and irrigation system.