Food that doesn’t waste water

Water is life, the world’s most precious resource. Yet across rural Australia, irrigation systems covering an estimated 2.5 million hectares of land are in desperate need of modernisation. In the United States, the figure is 10 times as high.

Water is the source of life
- we must waste it.

But of the major nations, it is in thirsty China that substandard irrigation hits hardest. Across that vast country, particularly in its north, 400 million people exist with dangerously low supplies of water – and as much as 60 million hectares of land is watered by irrigation systems that are critically out of date.

Read the Pursuit article by Gary Tippet from the University of Melbourne - “Food that doesn’t waste water.”