Further reduce turf,
improve irrigation efficiency, and transition to drought tolerant landscape
Seeking a long - term solution, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council announced on 29 January the massive investment, which aims to achieve sustainable water use by controlling total water consumption,
improving irrigation efficiency, and restricting groundwater pumping, among other measures.
For suburban offices, there has been high attention to
improving irrigation efficiency with approaches such as drip irrigation, weather - based smart irrigation control, and drought - tolerant landscaping.
Not exact matches
As part of Nestlé Waters» ongoing efforts to
improve the water
efficiency of their operations, the company has implemented a number of conservation techniques and initiatives in their factories over the years, including reverse osmosis to better filter and reuse wastewater, advanced water mapping to more carefully manage the flow of water in and out of the plants, and xeriscaping to reduce supplemental
irrigation on the grounds of each factory.
Need for strong public outreach Agricultural production accounts for the greatest amount of global water consumption, and in this sector the authors suggest a variety of
efficiency proposals such as
improved irrigation systems and switching to crop varieties that consume less water.
Irrigation efficiency could also be
improved in irrigated agricultural basins.
The researchers suspected different, more targeted,
irrigation methods would help reduce nitrate runoff and
improve plant
efficiency.
For the study, the researchers gathered a long - term data set of residential lawn - watering frequency and lawn - watering behaviors, determined the scale of weekly lawn - watering frequency with water restrictions alone, and tested to determine if adding the weather - based conservation strategy could
improve lawn
irrigation efficiency and water savings over water restrictions alone.
Reduce outdoor water
efficiency through drought - tolerant landscape design and
improved irrigation technologies