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Water Conservation
Increasingly, we face the need to simultaneously provide secure food sources and conserve water. To satisfy both these demands, GeoAgronomics is developing a parallel system that provides both crop and water usage monitoring.
The system is designed to provide the following benefits:
- Increased amount of land that is irrigated with surface water
- Protect water rights by expanding its beneficial use
- Reduced pumping of ground water
- Improved air quality (fewer hours from diesel and electric pumps, high efficiency electric motors)
- Reduced energy consumption
- Better crop productions
- Better water quality, less salt
- Reduced spills and discharges
- Less chemical use (farmers can fertilize more efficiently through the drip system)
To do so requires the gathering of data to determine the phenology, yield, sensitivity, irrigation demand and related design criteria for the new system. Along with these engineering design issues, GeoAgronomics also considers how best to disseminate this information to the desired users.
GeoAgronoimcs believes, given a successful demonstration of the technical and economic benefits of the pressurized delivery system, more agricultural users will be interested in converting to these irrigation practices, amplifying the benefits. To help revise the current unsustaibable models and make a definitive economic argument, additional data is provided needed for both public sector and agricultural users, such as:
- Typical existing costs and practices vs. projected costs and practices
- Capital cost investment
- Operational costs (staff operations and training)
- Return On Investment
The global community will be investing several billion dollars in agricultural technologies because this will reduce systemic costs, improve conservation and efficiency, while providing additional environmental benefits. There are also long-term cost benefits to the agricultural user.
With successful application, GeoAgronomics anticipates applying this technology to other applicable areas in their service territory to provide the following benefits:
- Increased amount of land that is irrigated with surface water
- Protect water rights by expanding its beneficial use
- Reduced pumping of ground water
- Improved air quality (fewer hours from diesel and electric pumps, high efficiency electric motors)
- Reduced energy consumption
- Better crop productions
- Better water quality, less salt
- Reduced spills and discharges