Suat Irmak and colleagues recently received an Award of Excellence from the Western Association of Agricultural Experiment Station -- Extension and Research Directors for outstanding progress and impacts of their regional project “Microirrigation for Sustainable Water Use.”
The West is home to some of the fastest growing communities in the nation, and these communities are putting additional strain on already overdrawn water supplies in the region. As a Multi-State Regional committee member, Irmak has been working with colleagues from western states to research, develop and implement water management strategies as well as educational programs related to microirrigation.
Irmak is a part of multi-state committee that was founded by researchers in 1972 to coordinate microirrigation research across the United States. Over the last several years, the group has made remarkable improvements to microirrigation systems and their management that have had significant environmental, economic, and social impacts. Irmak is the first researcher who initiated large scale microirrigation research and educational programs in Nebraska more than a decade ago.