More mature plants prefer flood irrigation.

The flood irrigation is practiced which necessitates level field.

Paddy is not produced as there is no big storage pond available which is necessary for the flood irrigation of paddy crop.

Foundation walls are even thicker to prevent seepage of water into the basement when flood irrigation was taking place around the house.

Streams suffer raised sediment and nutrient (phosphorus) levels from flood irrigation and grazing.

Surface irrigation is often referred to as flood irrigation, implying that the water distribution is uncontrolled and therefore, inherently inefficient.

While this provides more control and uses less water than flood irrigation, like furrow irrigation the amount that each individual wine receives can be sporadic.

Water use in agriculture can be cut to half with known technology, e.g., by switching from flood irrigation of paddy to SRI.

While field-level irrigation efficiencies may be low due to the predominance of flood irrigation, the overall system efficiency is quite high due to return flows.

It is often called flood irrigation when the irrigation results in flooding or near flooding of the cultivated land.