Introduction to Sustainable Irrigation - RUVIVAL Toolbox
Channel: RUVIVAL
Date: 2017-06-13

This video introduces the viewer to Sustainable Irrigation and is part of the Toolbox of the e-learning project RUVIVAL on the HOOU website:
https://www.hoou.de/projects/sustainable-irrigation/pages/sustainable-irrigation-video

Irrigation has been practised worldwide for thousands of years and irrigated agriculture is one of the biggest users of water in the world. Although irrigation systems and methods have developed through history, much improvement can still be done, especially with regards to water efficiency. Freshwater has become a depleting resource and the demand for it is only increasing. Looking ahead, climate change will cause more severe droughts and intensify pressures on water resources around the world. Humans will continue to rely on irrigation for survival, so it is critical to reduce the pressure on freshwater bodies, while still maintaining crop productivity. This is why sustainable irrigation is more than ever necessary.

RUVIVAL - Sustainable Rural Development and highly productive New Towns is concerned with restoring degraded areas and creating new not just inhabitable, but liveable spaces. It is an e-learning project of the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) in cooperation with the Hamburg Open Online University (HOOU).

Sustainable Agriculture by Maria Monina Orlina and Ruth Schaldach https://youtu.be/BeYl0Yy5IMo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.