With global water demand projected to rise substantially in coming decades, improving water productivity in agriculture is ...

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.

Irrigated agriculture is the planet's largest consumer of freshwater and ultimately produces more than 40% of food worldwide. Yet the exact amounts of water actually being used in irrigation remains ...

A predictive model combining information about plant physiology, real-time soil conditions and weather forecasts can help make more informed decisions about when and how much to irrigate. This could ...

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 ...

An international team of researchers from the University of Bergen and other leading institutions expose severe limitations in large-scale hydrological models that produce estimates for water ...

Scientists urge a climate-resilient shift in India's irrigation and food production to reduce carbon emissions and promote ...

Agriculture currently accounts for approximately 70% of global freshwater withdrawals. Amid increasing challenges posed by ...

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 ...

ITHACA — Fresh water isn’t unlimited. Rainfall isn’t predictable. And plants aren’t always thirsty. Just 3% of the world’s water is drinkable, and more than 70% of that fresh water is used for ...