Engineers Devise News Strategies for Irrigating Farmland More Efficiently
Friday, November 21, 2008 - 13:28
in Mathematics & Economics
As California's population continues to grow in the coming decades, freshwater supplies to farms, homes and businesses are expected to decline. To help reduce the vast amount of water used for agriculture-which consumes about four times the fresh water of homes and businesses-researchers at UC San Diego's Jacobs School are using sensor technologies to devise new strategies for irrigating farmland more efficiently.