Tag: irrigation
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America uses 322 billion gallons of water each day. Here’s where it goes.
Photo © iStockphoto.com/iofoto From cooling power plants to quenching thirst and growing crops, water is part of everything we do. February 22, 2019 — As climate change, urban development, irrigation and other factors are altering the availability of water, it’s important to understand how we use water on a daily basis in the U.S. —…
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Extreme water stress affects a quarter of the world’s population, say experts
17 countries including India, home to 1.3 billion people, are identified as having ‘extremely high’ water stress. Photograph: Pratik Chorge/Hindustan Times/Getty Images A quarter of the world’s population across 17 countries are living in regions of extremely high water stress, a measure of the level of competition over water resources, a new report reveals. Experts…
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State of Growth: conservation and technology critical to meeting future water demand
Photo: Water flows through an irrigation ditch at the Colorado State University Arkansas Valley Research Center.”Water is obviously a very scarce and precious resource,” Wells said. COLORADO SPRINGS – Community leaders are looking toward conservation and new technologies as they plan decades into the future to keep delivering water to a thirsty community. With a…
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Farmers’ protest is a sign water politics is about to go into hyperdrive
Photo: The confluence of the Murray and Darling rivers. Farmers believe water is not being allocated fairly according to the government’s own rules. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian [h2oIQ editor’s note: we generally focus on North America. However, we are sympathetic to farmers everywhere and note that the issue discussed here could well be on the…
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Shallow Waters
In a warmer world, the fight for water can push nations apart — or bring them together The Rio Grande Valley of Texas is one of the fastest-growing places in the United States. Already hot and arid, and growing hotter, the booming, heavily Latino region depends almost entirely on the shriveling Rio Grande for water.…
