sprinkler

Here (in WA state) on the other hand, no sprinkler caps, and no real need for them.

The sprinkler use case above (tonyarkles) is an easy example, because there is a knowable science to healthy lawns.

Apparently animals will run away and sprinkler heads can be marked with perimeter wire so that the gadget avoids them.

Now imagine a smart sprinkler, with thermal imaging cameras that can pinpoint the source of a fire before it spreads.

A reminder that my sprinkler system needs to be winterized, or a card reminding me that my dogs are due for their vaccines.

I have sprinkler heads all over my lawn, if the lawn mower avoided them I'd have patches of long grass.

Edit: we had our house unoccupied for 2 months with everything unplugged and off, but our pool pump and sprinkler system.

Multi-family dwellings have required sprinkler systems for at least a generation.

In the 80s, the local FD used to attach some weird pipe/sprinkler system to the fire hydrants around my hood to prevent people from doing it themselves.

- Introduce tax breaks for the removal of sprinkler systems and replacing plants with ones that require less water.

At the company I worked at a sprinkler system failed on top of 2 racks of servers about a year ago, they were drenched.

Another recent trend is residential sprinkler systems.

My sprinkler heads will routinely get stuck in the "up" position due to sand/dirt that gets stuck in the sliding mechanism.

The whole "sprinkler systems are bad" argument doesn't hold much water in suburban NY.

Better title: "Beware walls that bounce pee back" I was expecting an active solution, like a saline water detector and a sprinkler.

It’s been flood-irrigated in the past, but we’re switching it all to micro-sprinkler.” Doing that will reduce Cox’s water need, but it will also have the perverse efficiency effect that Bradley Udall described, by turning a non-consumptive use (irrigation runoff) into a consumptive one (more grapefruit).