Irrigation

This spring, a 20-week public consultation concluded. The draft plan has re-enflamed arguments between irrigators and environmentalists, and pitted states against states

Ranchers and environmentalists form an unlikely alliance in the dry Australian Outback to avoid the water wars.

Steep conical hills of brown sand and stone ring the city of Lima. Massive cement water tanks cap many of the summits, some bearing a slogan of the city’s powerful water utility, Sedepal: Agua Para Todo (water for all). To an inhabitant of the eastern United States, where water is generally plentiful, and where few […]

This year, U.S. farmers will apply one billion pounds of pesticides to their crops, much of which will runoff the soil into rivers and streams that provide drinking water. Costly big city treatment plants often filter the chemicals out before they reach homes, but the plants in many smaller towns lack that capability. So every […]

Around the world, projections are being made about food production in China in the coming century. Critical to the question of growing food is the availability of the water that irrigates it. Lucie MacNeill reports from China on the state of water in the world’s most populous nation, and what may be done to avoid […]