NMSU game teaches players about water use on farms

Amid deepening drought, Mexico works to reduce agricultural water waste

As drought deepens in Mexico, the National Water Commission on Thursday presented a plan that officials hope will save 2.8 billion cubic meters of water across the country. Water commission (Conagua) officials on Thursday said the updated National Irrigation Modernization Program aims to upgrade systems that will affect 200,000 hectares of irrigable land in Mexico, reducing agricultural water waste. Efraín Morales, director of Conagua, shared th…

NMSU game teaches players about water use on farms

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – A team from the New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service has launched a new game to teach players about the effects of water use decisions on farms. USDA offering emergency loans to New Mexico farmers, ranchers impacted by drought “Cozy River Valley” focuses on balancing water consumption, community, environment and financial well-being. It is a data-informed simulation of changing climate conditi…

In a historical fact for the countryside, the Government of Mexico, through the National Water Commission (Conagua), presented the advances of the National Irrigation Technology Program, which, for the first time in history, will allow to technify more than 200,000 hectares for the benefit of at least 225,000 agricultural producers from 13 Irrigation Districts (DR) in the country through an investment of 51.8 billion pesos (mdp). Mexico's presid…

Mexico City.- The National Water Commission (Conagua) seeks to avoid the waste of 2 800 million cubic meters of water, which according to its data is equivalent to almost three times the annual consumption of Mexico City, with the technicalization of 13 irrigation districts with an investment of 51,830 million pesos, throughout the six-year period. "It is a program that has no precedent in the history of the country," said the director of the Co…

Guanajuato, Mexico.- This Thursday the National Irrigation Technology Program was presented where Guanajuato will be one of the states benefiting from the program within the 13 interventions in the country. As part of the project will intervene the District of Irrigation 011 of Alto Lerma, with a total investment of 6,412 million pesos. This seeks to efficientize the water for agricultural use, increase productivity and allocate part of the wate…

A central axis of the water policy of this six-year period will be the technicalization of irrigation of agricultural production of more than 200,000 hectares through an investment of 51,830 million pesos, according to Efraín Morales López, general director of the National Commission of Conagua.