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TOPIC(S): Irrigation, Agriculture US, Water,

10/18/2022 SOURCE: www.coloradopolitics.com

Colorado River basin farms stunted by megadrought, as more sacrifice lies ahead

PINAL COUNTY, ARIZ. • Colorado River basin water has transformed Nancy Caywood’s fields in the desert southwest of Phoenix into carpets of green cotton and alfalfa for generations. But in

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TOPIC(S): Cotton, Water, Weather,

10/08/2022 SOURCE: triblive.com

Drought takes toll on U.S. cotton production

LUBBOCK, Texas — The cotton harvest is about to get underway in the Texas High Plains, the windswept region that grows most of the crop in the nation’s top cotton-producing state. But Barry Evans, like many others, has already walked away from more than 2,000 acres of his bone-dry fields.

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TOPIC(S): Cotton, Education U.S. West, Water, Sustainability,

09/25/2022 SOURCE: www.youtube.com

Cotton Shows its Magic
On September 19, 2022, Dr. Tosha Dupras, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Texas T...

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TOPIC(S): Agriculture Global, Water, Sustainability,

09/24/2022 SOURCE: guyanachronicle.com

Optimising water use is key for agri-food systems - Guyana Chronicle

Irrigation brings higher yields yet at the same time producing food for a growing population increases pressure on water resources. Numerous droughts and

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Topics: Agriculture Global, Water, Ag Asia / Pacific, Regenerative Agriculture,

Regenerative farming to better protect soil, food

China has 18 percent of the world's population, but less than 9 percent of the world's cropland and only one-third of the global average availability of freshwater on a per capita basis.

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TOPIC(S): Education U.S. SouthEast, Education U.S. SouthWest, Water, Research, Weather,

09/08/2022 SOURCE: www.stwnewspress.com

OSU researchers studying the use of saline water in agriculture

Oklahoma State University and the Oklahoma Water Resources Center are researching how to i...

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Topics: Agriculture US, Water, Climate Change, Weather,

Pipe dreams: Why far-fetched Western water projects won’t go away

There are at least half a dozen major Western water pipeline projects under consideration, ranging from ambitious to outlandish.

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TOPIC(S): Rice, Agriculture Global, Water, Weather,

09/01/2022 SOURCE: www.manilatimes.net

China drought to hike price of rice

AN official of the Department of Agriculture (DA) on Tuesday warned that a drought being experienced in China could jack up the prices of imported rice.During a hearing of the...

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TOPIC(S): Soil Health, Water, Fertilizer,

08/30/2022 SOURCE: geneticliteracyproject.org

Extracting urine from wastewater and using it as fertilizer could be sustainability boon

Removing urine from wastewater and using it as fertilizer has the potential to decrease nutrient loading in water bodies and boost sustainability by making use of a common waste material.