Problem

80% is agriculture use 

Irrigating Water

http://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/

Irrigating

Water

Subtitle

Using data to reduce

Agricultural Water Usage

Solution

"Don't over watering"
"Don't under watering"

• "When to irrigate crops?"

• "How much water should I irrigate?"

Considering...

• Dynamic weather conditions

• Control Water Usage under Cost Tiers

Best Timing to water

Factors

Collecting Data 

• Water consumption 
• Soil temp, soil humidity

To Make Better Decisions

Simplified 

Variables:

- Location

- Crop

- Field Area

Feature

Try to keep water

Usage at Tier 1

Datasets

Weather / Precipitation / (Water price)

Summary

Helping farmers to make smarter irrigating decisions

Future Works

• Integrating more data
• Deploy as a web interface 

Data Sources

• http://et.water.ca.gov/Rest/Index
• http://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/
• https://data.cnra.ca.gov/dataset/crop-mapping-2014

Irrigation Assistance

Smarter Irrigating Decision

with Data

#CAwaterdatadive