If you live in San Diego County, especially anywhere near Imperial Beach, you’ve probably heard the same story for years: raw sewage from Tijuana keeps flowing north, beaches keep closing, and nobody seems able to fix it.

If you’ve been in irrigation long enough, you’ve heard the classic line: “My water source is clean. I don’t need filtration.” And every time someone says it, an emitter somewhere silently screams.

August is National Water Quality Month, and it’s the perfect time to pause, reflect, and recommit to protecting one of our planet’s most precious resources: clean water.

In the realm of large-scale drip or micro irrigation systems, the significance of effective water filtration cannot be overstated.