Water - Plan B

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  • 41: Build a tool forprojections, modeling, and visualization
  • 42: Chennai / Madras, India -- tank-truck industry resulted from scarcity
  • 218: Framing the opportunity landscape: "Future gains from irrigation will likely come more from raising irrigation efficiency than from expanding irrigation water supplies. (Lester Brown State of the World 2001 footnote - p328) 
  • 224:  "...drip irrigation systems... pay for themselves in 1 year by simultaneously raising yields and reducing water costs..." Context = India, China, have ~1-3% penetration of drip irrigation, US has ~4%. Sandra Postel ("Punjab's Depleting Groundwater Stagnates Agricultural Growth"...Down to Earth v16 no 5 2007 --p330 = full citation)