Water scarcity and the high cost of energy represent the main problems for irrigation communities, which manage water for this end, making it available to agriculture. In a context of drought, with a ...

Stanford researchers developed a new tool to optimize irrigation systems to help farmers reduce their water usage. Daniel Tartakovsky, professor of energy science and engineering, and Weiyu Li Ph.D.

With increasing population size and food demand, the global area equipped for irrigation has expanded almost six-fold since 1900. New research, published in three separate journal articles led by VUB ...

Sustainable rates of groundwater withdrawal in Oregon's Harney Basin were surpassed 20 years prior to the time declining groundwater levels were generally recognized, a new analysis found. Sustainable ...

Three new high-profile studies led by Dr. Yi Yao (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and ETH Zurich) show that while irrigation may ...

Farmers in the Semi-arid parts of Embu and adjacent counties are set to benefit from advanced irrigation technologies to produce food after the Israel government established an eight-acre model farm ...