Each year, World Water day focuses on one over-arching topic related to the sustainability and advocacy of freshwater resources. "Coping With a Growing Global Population" is the focus of World Water Day 2012. We have heard the alarming stat that our global population may reach 9 billion people by 2050. How do we feed a population this large? We are already experiencing freshwater issues, how will we grow and support food, from farm to fork? These questions, among several others, bring well-rounded conversations and campaigns to World Water Day 2012.
The following is reposted from the World Water Day Website (http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday):
"Coping with population growth and ensuring access to nutritious food to everyone call for a series of actions we can all help with:
- follow a healthier, sustainable diet;
- consume less water-intensive products;
- reduce the scandalous food wastage: 30% of the food produced worldwide is never eaten and the water used to produce it is definitively lost!
- produce more food, of better quality, with less water. "
For rice producers looking to either convert to, or begin, center pivot and linear irrigation, benefits include:
- Resource conservation
- Higher profitability for growers
- Lower total input costs
- Another additional crop in rotation
- Ability to grow crops on land not suitable for:
- Traditional flood irrigation
- Other agricultural crops
- Precision application of chemicals and fertilizers through the center pivot/linear
Want to help celebrate World Water Day 2012? Find campaign materials and updates on worldwide events at www.UNWater.org/WorldWaterDay.
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