Structural Elements for Artificial Irrigation

Even though the main feature for irrigation systems has been around agricoltural purpouses, its techniques are also used for cooling livestock, dust suppression, disposal of sewage, and in mining.

For the scope of agricolture, it is possible to find some basical elements.
The irrigation system consists of an intake structure, usually a pumping station, a system to convey the water, another for the distribution, one for the field application and a system for draining.

So, for each system named up, these are the representative components:

The Pump:
 Directs water from the source, such as reservoirs or rivers, into the irrigation system. It is nowaday mostly an hydraulic engine, consuming electric power.

Dikes and Conduits:
 An open canal, channel, or ditch, is a waterway not constrained into a closed structure whose purpouse is to carry water from a spot to another.

Pipelines:
 A pipeline network is required to reach the fields from the canals, up until the outputting valves into the field.

Sprinklers:
 They are the endpoint valves dedicated to diffusion of the water in the open air to the land.