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<big>'''Industrial agriculture globally: Water and Agriculture'''</big>
<big>'''Industrial agriculture globally: Water and Agriculture'''</big>


'''One of the issues rarely confronted when considering high intensive agricultural is the use of water in unsustainable irrigation. The draw down and depletion of aquifers is a rising cost and only recently, with the advent of earth observation and monitoring systems, are technologies becoming available to measure the extent of groundwater basins and recharging capabilities. The new satellite measurements of aquifers/ground water globally, as are now being reported with NASA GRACE satellites, comprise both a warning and a capability of needed sustainable environmental security. Water saving and water security are essential to a lasting agriculture policy.  
One of the issues rarely confronted when considering high intensive agriculture is the use of water in unsustainable irrigation. The draw down and depletion of aquifers is a rising cost and only recently, with the advent of earth observation and monitoring systems, are technologies becoming available to measure the extent of groundwater basins and recharging capabilities. The new satellite measurements of aquifers/ground water globally, as are now being reported with NASA GRACE satellites, comprise both a warning and a capability of needed sustainable environmental security. Water saving and water security are essential to a lasting agriculture policy.  


-- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Aquifers  
-- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Aquifers  
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* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Farm-Related_Policies Farm-Related Policies]  
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Farm-Related_Policies Farm-Related Policies]  
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer Fertilizers]


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* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Water_Saving Water Saving]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Water_Saving Water Saving]
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Latest revision as of 13:34, 25 August 2015

Agricultural Sustainability as a Green Policy Goal

Industrial agriculture globally: Water and Agriculture

One of the issues rarely confronted when considering high intensive agriculture is the use of water in unsustainable irrigation. The draw down and depletion of aquifers is a rising cost and only recently, with the advent of earth observation and monitoring systems, are technologies becoming available to measure the extent of groundwater basins and recharging capabilities. The new satellite measurements of aquifers/ground water globally, as are now being reported with NASA GRACE satellites, comprise both a warning and a capability of needed sustainable environmental security. Water saving and water security are essential to a lasting agriculture policy.

-- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Aquifers

-- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations