drip irrigation not a water conserving thing?
“Policies aimed at reducing water applications can actually increase water depletions… Conservation programs that target reduced water diversions or applications provide no guarantee of saving water.”
These controversial statements are part of the abstract of an article by Frank A. Warda and Manuel Pulido-Velazquez that was recently published in the current Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The study mainly looks at agricultural water use in the Rio Grande Valley, but some of its ideas and findings have relevance for our little backyard farmsteads. This is an open-access article, so you don’t have to have some magical levels of access to be able to read it online for free.
November 29 2008 01:32 am | Categories: gardening | Tags: water conservation • water use
