To water a crop you typically need an inch of water per week. That would be an acre-inch, or 1/12 of the above. (A crop might live ok on less water; but a bunch of it evaporates, etc. so you need to apply about an inch a week to keep up....)
So, to water an acre of land, you need 27,000 gallons a week.
For your 10 acres, you'd need to truck in 270,000 gallons.
Or 135 loads of water every week.
Hope it rains a little, to give you a week or 2 off! :) And I don't want to know the fuel bill....
A 3/4 inch garden hose can run close to 20 gallons a minute for argument sake - depends on the pressure & I'm rounding up.... So running 24 hours a day, you can water about an acre a day with a garden hose.
/Certainly, rain and water already in the soil profile will decrease watering needs a lot, and getting 1/4 that amount of water on real dry sod will keep it living, but if you want to _produce_ a crop, it takes water.
Irrigation uses a tremendous amount of water, you gotta pump it local out of a creek/pond or a well, hauling it in a truck or container is for very, very small garden plots.
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