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

Don’t miss the first of the spring Water and Food Security Seminar Series discussing salt management and drainage water disposal in irrigated areas.

It is estimated that close to 100 million hectares of irrigated land suffer from moderate to severe salinization and waterlogging. This is considered to be one of the major impediments to sustainable irrigation management and to food security more broadly. Irrigation water mobilizes salt in the root zone, and this impairs both downstream and ground water quality. There are few irrigation schemes that have effective salt management and saline water disposal strategies. The seminar will discuss some basin-wide approaches in various parts of the world, and incentives to promote better water and salt management.

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, February 23, 2017
12:00–2:00 pm

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

A light lunch will be served

To learn more, visit the J-WAFS website.