Russian speech is replete with terms that come from foreign languages. One of them is the word “irrigation”. What is irrigatio? From the Latin language, this term is translated as “irrigation”. In various areas of life, it is used with different meanings.
Agricultural irrigation. What is an irrigation system?
Even the plants of forests and meadows do not always have enough natural irrigation, what can we say about crops. They are planted away from rivers and lakes, in large areas, the only source of moisture on which rainfall is most often. If the year is dry, and the rains cannot saturate the soil with water to the necessary degree, the plants are doomed. An irrigation system is called upon to save them from death. Most often this is a structure from a pipeline and pumps, to which water is supplied. Its source may be a natural body of water (river, lake, canal) or a tank for collecting precipitation.
When growing rice, additional irrigation is also used . What such an event will give, I think, does not need to be explained. The need for it is due to the increased demands of this culture to a sufficient level of moisture.
The irrigation system can also consist of canals. Some of them bring water to the sown area, and part - drains, removes its surplus. Where the soil requires additional moisture, but there is no stationary system, watering is carried out using sprinklers.
Medical irrigation
There is also the medical meaning of the word “irrigation”. What is irrigation for doctors? This is a medical manipulation, which consists in washing a certain area with a stream of any liquid. This includes the treatment of wounds with an antiseptic solution. One way to remove the sulfuric plug, flushing the ear canal is also irrigation.
For carrying out procedures bearing this name, special tools are used. Most often, these are syringes, syringes and electronic devices that supply fluid under pressure.