Category: Tag: water
What does irrigation have to do with climate change? Possibly a lot. According to a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, irrigation has increased agricultural productivity by an amount roughly equivalent to the entire agricultural output of the United States. That’s a lot of increased productivity! All of those growing plants take up more […]
Today’s Wall Street Journal ran a story about using beavers to raise the water table and rehabilitate natural areas. Beavers? How can beavers do this? Photo by Walter Siegmund Beaver dam of Hat Lake and Hat Creek in foreground. Bridge over Hat Creek on highway 89, Lassen Volcanic National Park. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BeaverDam_8409.jpg Beavers are rodents that live […]
Where has all the groundwater gone, long time passing? (My apologies to Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson.) It’s gone into the sea. Scientists in the Netherlands have made the shocking discovery that much of the water pumped out of the ground evaporates and ends up in the oceans. Amazingly, this raises the sea level by […]