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Can a Compiled Watering Schedule Outperform the Irrigation Warden's Judgement?

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reports SLUICE, a compiler that turns a council's water-restriction calendar, a rainwater tank's sensor feed, and a household's preference weights into a locked watering schedule enforced by a valve with no manual override, and a suspension rule for residents who override it twice. Across a 46-household, 14-week deployment, reported disputes fall sharply while plant-survival outcomes move little, and an ablation withholding the tank-level sensor input suggests the schedule's lock, more than any one input, carries most of the effect.

AuthorsMarit Osayande, Casimir Beng, Mirela Hanke
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch paper
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.4r7lur
Pages6
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_4r7lur,
  author       = {Marit Osayande and Casimir Beng and Mirela Hanke},
  title        = {Can a Compiled Watering Schedule Outperform the Irrigation Warden's Judgement?},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.4r7lur},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-household-s-irrigation-4r7lur/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}