NASA | Science for a Hungry World: Part 5

This episode discusses dwindling groundwater resources in India.

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One of the biggest changes to global agriculture is less about the food itself as it is about the water we use to grow it. In some areas, farmers are using freshwater resources - including groundwater - at an alarming rate. The GRACE satellites enable scientists to discover changes to underground aquifers by monitoring changes in the Earth's gravity. In northern India, farmers rely heavily on irrigation to grow crops, and the resulting massive aquifer depletion creates an uncertain future for the region.

[DGFerro]

It is absolutely amazing that we can do this.

[hagilerman]

The government of India need to help their farmers/people to build water reservoir or little pools to store the water from monsoon rain season for agriculture.

[Vicvines]

experiments done in zero G have allowed us to genetically enhance food to have better nutrition and better protection from disease which is VERY important when it comes to feeding third world countries. if you can produce a tomato that resists disease and has the best nutrition possible with a longer shelf life, then there is a set of problems you just got rid of in the attempt to feed the world

[Vicvines]

@tigerone1970 really? nobody is waiting for this? ask Sudan

[djbuti]

Who else’s teacher told them to do this