Money was easy to borrow, and, at the same time, droughts were front-page stories. For two decades-plus, millions of single-family, cluster, and town homes were being put up, with nice lawns to maintain. Along the way, irrigation systems became a must-have option. Like electric garage door openers, everyone had to have automatic sprinklers with the new home, as standard.rnTo feed the demand, new "smart" data-encoded irrigation control products issued forth, evolved quickly, and were added onto developers' plans.rnAnd during this time, few, if any, codes and standards were issued by regulatory bodies; nothing adequate to assure quality or standardization in rapidly growing practices of landscape irrigation design, installation, operation, or technology. The result?
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