Agriculture
Globally, the agricultural sector consumes about 70% of the planet’s accessible freshwater. Because water is vital for the success of agriculture, proper water management techniques are necessary to meet food and fiber material demands around the world. Resources available here pay special attention to efficient irrigation and sustainable agriculture techniques.
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Urban Water Blueprint: Mapping Conservation Solutions to the Global Water Challenge
Published:
November 18, 2014The Nature Conservancy
The Urban Water Blueprint report and accompanying interactive website provide a resource for decision-makers in evaluating water quantity and quality risk across the world's largest cities, the steps some cities have taken to overcome water stress, and the cost-benefits of incorporating...Read more
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GlobalWater Quality Index for Runoff Water from Agricultural Fields (WQIag)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Water Quality Index for Runoff from Agricultural Fields (WQI) is currently being developed by the USDA/NRCS-WNTSC National Water Quality/Quantity Team in Portland, Oregon. The purpose/benefits of this tool include: comparative assessment over time & space, no substitute for monitoring/...Read more
Agricultural Policy/Environmental eXtender (APEX)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Agricultural Policy/Environmental eXtender (APEX) model was developed for use in whole farm/small watershed management. The model was constructed to evaluate various land management strategies considering sustainability, erosion (wind, sheet, and channel), economics, water supply and quality,...Read more
Soil and Water Assessment Tool
U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a public domain model jointly developed by USDA Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and Texas A&M AgriLife Research, part of The Texas A&M University System. SWAT is a small watershed to river basin-scale model to simulate the quality and...Read more
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GlobalAgricultural Non-Point Source Pollution Model
U.S. Department of Agriculture
AGNPS is a tool for use in evaluating the effect of management decisions impacting water, sediment and chemical loadings within a watershed system.
The term "AGNPS" now refers to the system of modeling components instead of the single event AGNPS, which was discontinued in the mid-1990...Read more
AgroClimate - Tools for Managing Climate Risk in Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
AgroClimate is an innovative web resource for decision support and learning covering the southeastern United States. The website provides interactive tools and climate information to improve crop management decisions and reduce production risks associated with climate variability, climate change,...Read more
Global Satellite Soil Moisture
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
This is a NESDIS operational satellite derived soil moisture product that combines measurements from several different satellites. There are several ways to view the data, including daily animations. This link gets you to the basic page.Read more
AquaCrop-OS
Published:
August 1, 2016Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute at the University of Nebraska
This free software tool, developed by the Water for Food Global Institute and worldwide partners, is an extension of FAO’s AquaCrop model enabling scientists and practitioners to explore the economic, social, and environmental implications of agricultural water use.Read more
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