Monitoring precious groundwater resources for arid agricultural regions

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VIDEO: KAUST researchers have designed a framework in collaboration with the Saudi Ministry of Environment Water and Agriculture to provide detailed information on agricultural groundwater use in arid regions.
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A framework designed to provide detailed information on agricultural groundwater use in arid regions has been developed by KAUST researchers in collaboration with the Saudi Ministry of Environment Water and Agriculture (MEWA).
"Groundwater is a precious resource, but we don't pay for it to grow our food, we just pump it out," says Oliver López, who worked on the project with KAUST's Matthew McCabe and co-workers. "When something is free, we are less likely to keep track of it, but it is critical that we measure groundwater extraction because it impacts both food and water security, not just regionally, but globally."

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