Water for the fields
Description
No matter where on Earth, the one human activity that consumes the most water is the one that wastes the most: agriculture. From locations around the world, this program surveys both disasters of agricultural irrigation, such as cotton farming in Uzbekistan, and innovative successes in water-efficient techniques and crops, such as in California and India. Numerous examples illustrate the destructive effects of deforestation and overgrazing, the difficulty of fighting erosion and reclaiming arable soil, and the urgency of the motto: more crop per drop.
Runtime
27 min
Series
Subjects
- Human geography (324)
- Land use (186)
- Conservation of natural resources (540)
- Environmental protection (361)
- Water (318)
- Economic geography (159)
- Geomorphology (43)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c2003
Database
Films on Demand
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