Frontiers in Groundwater Irrigation

Date: 
Thursday, April 6, 2017 - 12:00 to 14:00

With erratic rainfall patterns, more frequent drought occurrences, and the poor management and distribution of water in large publicly owned irrigation systems, farmers are drilling their own deep tubewells or shallow boreholes, and relying more on groundwater for irrigation. There is little information on aquifer characteristics and recharge rates, as well as inadequate ground water monitoring programs. Unsustainable groundwater pumping and aquifer depletion have already jeopardized irrigated agriculture in many irrigated regions such as the Indo-Gangetic Plain, the High Aquifer Plains of the US, and the North China Plains. The seminar will discuss some of the remedial technical and institutional measures being put in place to make better use of limited ground water resources for food security.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab

Presented by

Visiting Professor Chandra Madramootoo
Location: 1-242

Contact

Allison Dougherty

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