http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Wed, 22 May 2013 16:33:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/28/geocharts-water-challenges-around-the-world/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/28/geocharts-water-challenges-around-the-world/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:28:34 +0000 Jeremy Hinsdale http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=34700 View four interactive maps that give an overview of some of the water challenges different parts of the world currently face.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/02/28/geocharts-water-challenges-around-the-world/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/12/daniel-hillel-originator-of-high-efficiency-irrigation-to-receive-world-food-prize/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/12/daniel-hillel-originator-of-high-efficiency-irrigation-to-receive-world-food-prize/#comments Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:32:02 +0000 Kevin Krajick http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=27862 Daniel Hillel, an adjunct senior scientist at Columbia University's Earth Institute, has been awarded the World Food Prize for his work in conceiving and promoting water-saving methods that have increased crop production on arid lands in 30 countries.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/12/daniel-hillel-originator-of-high-efficiency-irrigation-to-receive-world-food-prize/feed/ 3 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:05:43 +0000 Lakis Polycarpou http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13880 As seductive as it is, depleting non-renewable aquifers to grow food is fundamentally unsustainable for the long term, as Saudi Arabia and other nations are finding out. According to a recent article by Lester Brown, in the 1970s the world’s largest oil producer realized it could use oil-drilling technology to tap deep underwater aquifers and—amazingly, [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/the-middle-east-dries-up%e2%80%94another-case-study-in-the-water-energy-food-nexus/feed/ 8 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/05/26/water-sensors-saving-water-in-irrigation/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/05/26/water-sensors-saving-water-in-irrigation/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 16:23:22 +0000 Jennifer Vettel http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/water/?p=698 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/05/26/water-sensors-saving-water-in-irrigation/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/02/02/low-cost-water-management-in-ethiopia/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/02/02/low-cost-water-management-in-ethiopia/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:34:58 +0000 Paul Block http://climate.columbia.edu/blog/?p=268 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/02/02/low-cost-water-management-in-ethiopia/feed/ 1