The amount of farmland around the world that will need to be irrigated in order to feed an estimated global population of 9 billion people by 2050 could be up to several billion acres, far higher than ...

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 ...

The Powder Basin Watershed Council of Baker City starts its 2026 guest speaker series May 7 with a presentation from Elaine ...

Yanhua Xie is helping address global fresh water challenges by creating groundbreaking models and datasets of agricultural ...

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 ...

Trajectory of irrigation water use in many regions is unsustainable, but practice is vital in managing climate change and future agricultural development, researchers conclude. The analysis, which ...

Researchers at Cornell University in the U.S. have developed a novel optimization model for agrivoltaic site design and benefits, which was demonstrated using irrigation-optimization relative to ...

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 ...