Posts in 'Landscaping/Irrigation'
Waterboxx Could Save California Winery 145,000 Gallons a Year
Posted on Jun 10, 2010 by Susan Kraemer.
A test of an ingenious water saving device invented by Lily grower Pieter Hoff, is being undertaken at Robert Mondavi’s vineyard in California’s Napa Valley, and is expected to save the winery 145,000 gallons of California’s precious water every year. The idea for the Popular Science Invention Award-winning Groasis Waterboxx developed from the way seeds are nurtured naturally in less drought-stressed environments.
Because of climate change, California growers have to plan for a future climate that is moving about a quarter of a mile North every year. If this recreation of Napa’s old climate works, the winery won’t have to move with it.
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Turkish Farmers Learn to Cut Water Use Up to 50%
Posted on May 19, 2010 by Zachary Shahan.
About 72% of total water use in Turkey is for agriculture. This 72% is important when the country’s largest city, Istanbul, can be out of running water for days at a time in the summer.
“We have to change our perception of water and water use practices considerably,” WWF-Turkey CEO Dr. Filiz Demirayak told the World Water Forum in Istanbul in March.
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New Initiative Addresses Middle Eastern Water Poverty
Posted on Feb 15, 2010 by Scott James.
Early this month in Jordan, seven Middle Eastern countries launched the Water and Livelihoods Initiative (WLI), an international conference on food security and climate change focused on the most elemental of resources: water. The 10 year project is looking at how farmers can best use their limited water resources for irrigated and rain-fed agriculture, and both native shrubs and grasses for rangeland grazing. The WLI will bring together communities from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Notably absent in from the list are Saudi Arabia Israel.
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Better Water Management Means Increased Crop Production
Posted on Dec 09, 2009 by Scott James.
Read the news on any given day and you’re likely to find two themes: we are running out of water and we need more food for a growing population. A new study that is the first to quantify the possibilities of water management as it is related to increasing crop production examined current crop production levels and the potential effects of various water management strategies offers hope for increased production, but the numbers show that it’s not nearly what we will need.
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New EPA Rules To Annually Keep 4 Billion Pounds of Sediment From Polluting Water
Posted on Dec 04, 2009 by Scott James.
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a set of new rules this week aimed at reducing water pollution from construction sites around the country. The effluent limitations guidelines (ELG) and new source performance standards (NSPS) are intended to control the discharge of pollutants from construction sites. This is the first time the EPA has created national monitoring requirements and enforceable limitations on stormwater drainage from construction sites.
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