Farm water infrastructure system¶

What this entity is: Farm-scale water movement and storage as an infrastructure system: sources (well, surface, municipal), pumps, tanks, distribution (pipe, valves), irrigation emitters, and livestock drinkers—considered together because failures are welfare and crop critical.

Why it matters: Two-site ops and validation backlogs treat water as a gate for scaling livestock or irrigation; telemetry (tank level, flow, pressure) is often high ROI but still subordinate to physical redundancy and manual fallback.

Canonical analyses / runbooks: Manual fallback for irrigation, gates, and pumps, Manual fallback and degraded modes — critical operations; business plan capital chapters for sequencing.

Does not claim: GPM, head, or pipe sizing for your farm—those require engineering and site data.

Related

• Topics: Irrigation and water-wise farming sources, Ponds, water features, and homestead hydrology
• Sites: 120-acre production farm (SITE_FARM) — ET two-site