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July 5, 2023
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This fact sheet provides information about pasture pipeline design. It provides information on how to design a system to supply water during the summer to livestock in a pasture.
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June 30, 2023
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This fact sheet provides information about drought security related to farm water supplies. Water supplies include wells, dugouts and other water sources.
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September 1, 2018
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The severe province-wide drought in the early 2000’s reaffirmed the importance and value of water to rural people across the Canadian prairies. Dry wells and dugouts, crop failures and dust storms...
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September 1, 2015
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Earth fill dams are a good alternative to dugouts where larger volumes of water must be stored at a reasonable cost and suitable site conditions exist. Proper design and construction is essential...
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April 1, 2015
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A routine chemical analysis tests the water for about 15 chemical parameters. Levels for common problems such as hardness, sodium, sulphates, nitrates and nitrites can be determined.
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March 1, 2015
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This fact sheet presents alternatives for iron removal such as: Air injection with filtration, Shock chlorination, manganese greensand iron filter, water softener, Chlorination and filtration
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September 1, 2012
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Pitless adaptors are mechanical devices used to provide frost free, sanitary well connections. They are designed to replace pump houses, which are expensive, and well pits, which are no longer...
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September 1, 2012
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Reverse osmosis is a water treatment process that forces water through an extremely fine membrane to remove dissolved minerals. Purified water passes through the membrane and collects in a storage...
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Views: 327
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August 1, 2011
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This fact sheet provides information about water softners operation, five-cycle fully automatic water softeners, iron removal and general information.
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May 1, 2011
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Water distillers can remove most minerals, metals, organic chemicals and micro-organisms from water. A clean, well-maintained distiller will remove over 95 per cent of the minerals, including...