Agriculture
Agricultural Sustainability as a Green Policy Goal
Industrial agriculture globally: Water and Agriculture
One of the issues rarely confronted when considering high intensive agricultural is the use of water in unsustainable irrigation. The draw down and depletion of aquifers is a rising cost and only recently, with the advent of earth observation and monitoring systems, are technologies becoming available to measure the extent of groundwater basins and recharging capabilities. The new satellite measurements of aquifers/ground water globally, as are now being reported with NASA GRACE satellites, comprise both a warning and a capability of needed sustainable environmental security. Water saving and water security are essential to a lasting agriculture policy.
-- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Aquifers
-- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations