Tim Tyler: Improving irrigation via watershed management

Water is a critically important nutrient for plants and animals.

The world's water supplies are extremely unevenly distributed - and many plants and animals are in a near-constant state of partial dehydration.

Since water is so important to living things, improving irrigation via watershed management aimed at producing a more even distribution seems like an important area.

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http://timtyler.org/irrigation/watershed_management/

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• watershed
• management

[tmtyler]

I think someone should at least fund the computer simulation I mentioned. It does seem like an area where small interventions could have large positive effects. We won't know *exactly* how much we can win for how little, until we bother to take a look.

[Yessj]

The difficulty is in convincing governments to act rational.