Water, Food and Everything in Between
For the final blog post, I wanted to look back on all of the topics that have been touched upon in this blog series. I want to briefly discuss each topic and then talk about how they interconnect with each other. The first topic that I covered in the blog was irrigation. I specifically looked at ground water irrigation (GWI), discussing how it could be the perfect solution. GWI provides a more reliable integrated form of irrigation, however, due to the hidden nature of the resource it has to be managed efficiently. GWI can provide perfect solutions to everyone from large scale commercial farms to smallholder farmers, but it does not come without challenges. Investigating the topic of groundwater irrigation further, a discussion into aquifers and one of the most threatening pressures to GWI was initiated. The third and fourth blog posts both covered some of the potential drawbacks of aquifers or groundwater in coastal regions. Saline intrusion can cause long term