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One-Quarter of World’s Agriculture Grows in Highly Water-Stressed Areas
All living creatures need two things to survive: food and water. A new WRI analysis shows just how much tension exists between those two essential resources. A new interactive map from WRI’s Aqueduct project reveals that more than 25 percent of the world’s agriculture is grown in areas of high water stress. This figure doubles when looking at irrigated cropland, which produces 40 ...
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Can drip irrigation keep the Prairie Profitable?
The use of flood and center pivot irrigation of crops via the waters of the Ogallala Aquifer is as hot a discussion topic as the current drought. To many who mine the aquifer to make a living, trying ...
News
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Irriwatch and Vinduino Launch Disrupting Irrigation Scheduling Service
Temecula California, May 18, 2020 – Vinduino and IrriWatch today announced that they partner to market and support the IrriWatch solution in the USA, where Vinduino will also use IrriWatch data in their award-winning irrigation automation ...
Equipment & Solutions
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Polylactic Acid (PLA) Fiber
PLA fibers are made of PLA (polylactic acid), which looks and feels like ordinary fibers, but they are 100% biodegradable and compostable. The use of PLA fiber protects environmental sustainability. It is well known that ordinary plastic fibers are made of petroleum-based polymer materials. However, PLA fiber is a renewable crop resource derived from “corn” and can be 100% biodegraded ...