Irrigation Professionals:
Carolina Green Industry Network and its affiliates provide access to educational opportunities to its members so that they can fulfill their requirements to maintain their Irrigation Licenses.
With the North Carolina Irrigation Contractor’s License becoming law as of July 1, 2009, professionalism in the Irrigation Industry, and the Green Industry in general, took a major step forward.
According to the recently enacted licensure law, no person shall engage in the practice of irrigation construction or contracting, use the designation ‘irrigation contractor,’ or advertise using any title or description that implies licensure as an irrigation contractor unless the person is licensed as an irrigation contractor. All irrigation construction or contracting performed by an individual, partnership, association, corporation, firm, or other group shall be under the direct supervision of an individual licensed by the Board. NC is one of only 7 states that have licensing required for irrigation contractors.
Certification by the Irrigation Association provides professional credentials that states you have voluntarily completed a course of study, passed an exam and met specified criteria. Certification provides consumers with more information about you.
It also gives you a way to increase your competency through study and exams, and then advertise or inform others about it. Certification sets standards, ensures practitioners are educated and competent and informs the public. The IA certifies individuals as Irrigation Contractors, Irrigation Designers, Landscape Irrigation Auditors, and Water Conservation Managers, among others.
Education is the key to growing the professionalism of the green industry, to helping members grow their businesses, and to generating awareness among the public and in the marketplace.
Less than three percent of the Earth’s water is fresh water. That means and less than three percent of all of the water on our planet is drinkable. Seventy percent of that water is locked up in glaciers and aquifers, meaning that only thirty percent of the 2.5 percent of the Earth’s water that is drinkable is also accessible. If you are not so good at math, what that means is that only 0.75% of all of the water on Earth is both drinkable and accessible to human beings, let alone animals and plants.
In 2001 the CIA estimated that almost half of the Earth’s population will live in countries under severe water stress by 2015. A billion people worldwide already lack adequate water, and nearly three times as many lack sanitation.
Essentially, there are three different types of irrigation:
With the North Carolina Irrigation Contractor’s License becoming law as of July 1, 2009, professionalism in the Irrigation Industry, and the Green Industry in general, took a major step forward.
According to the recently enacted licensure law, no person shall engage in the practice of irrigation construction or contracting, use the designation ‘irrigation contractor,’ or advertise using any title or description that implies licensure as an irrigation contractor unless the person is licensed as an irrigation contractor. All irrigation construction or contracting performed by an individual, partnership, association, corporation, firm, or other group shall be under the direct supervision of an individual licensed by the Board. NC is one of only 7 states that have licensing required for irrigation contractors.
Certification by the Irrigation Association provides professional credentials that states you have voluntarily completed a course of study, passed an exam and met specified criteria. Certification provides consumers with more information about you.
It also gives you a way to increase your competency through study and exams, and then advertise or inform others about it. Certification sets standards, ensures practitioners are educated and competent and informs the public. The IA certifies individuals as Irrigation Contractors, Irrigation Designers, Landscape Irrigation Auditors, and Water Conservation Managers, among others.
Education is the key to growing the professionalism of the green industry, to helping members grow their businesses, and to generating awareness among the public and in the marketplace.
Less than three percent of the Earth’s water is fresh water. That means and less than three percent of all of the water on our planet is drinkable. Seventy percent of that water is locked up in glaciers and aquifers, meaning that only thirty percent of the 2.5 percent of the Earth’s water that is drinkable is also accessible. If you are not so good at math, what that means is that only 0.75% of all of the water on Earth is both drinkable and accessible to human beings, let alone animals and plants.
In 2001 the CIA estimated that almost half of the Earth’s population will live in countries under severe water stress by 2015. A billion people worldwide already lack adequate water, and nearly three times as many lack sanitation.
Essentially, there are three different types of irrigation:
- Necessary irrigation. That is the water that we use to sustain life in the plants in our landscape designs, at the bare minimum level that still promotes strong and healthy growth.
- Aesthetic irrigation. This is the water that we use solely for the purposes of creating a desirable appearance with our landscape. Watering plants during their natural dormant period – e.g. in the summertime many grasses are designed to die and be reborn in the spring – so that the “green aesthetic” is met, would fit into this category.
- Wasted irrigation. This is the most inexcusable form, which occurs in many different ways. Let’s talk about the way our industry wastes irrigation. Poor hoses, connections, pipe fittings, and irrigation heads allow leakage which overwaters an area and turns into runoff. Worn and fatigued objects in this category do the same thing. And let’s not forget how much runoff and waste water is created from simple and careless overwatering.
Carolina Green Industry Network Mission Statement - To provide green industry education, leadership & resources that promote environmental responsibility, professionalism & public awareness using a platform that engages all facets of the Green industry in an effort to create a better future for all stakeholders.
