Hosted by: MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and J-WAFS 

Don’t miss the third spring Water and Food Security Seminar discussing frontiers in groundwater irrigation.

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.

About the Water and Food Security Seminar Series
Presented by Chandra A. Madramootoo (visiting professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and visiting scholar, J-WAFS), the purpose of this seminar series is to provide senior undergraduate and graduate students with a background on some of the challenges of global food security, particularly in relation to issues around water management engineering and agro-ecologic conditions.

Details

Thursday, April 6, 2017
12:00–2:00 pm

MIT Building 1
33 Massachusetts Ave (Room 1-242)
Cambridge, MA 02139

A light lunch will be served

Learn more at the J-WAFS website.