How software companies are chipping away at the state's water crisis.
Yet climate change is exacerbating its growing scarcity in many parts of the world. In some regions, water might be plentiful but not drinkable. In others, it’s already disappearing.Negligent decision making in Flint, Michigan, contaminated the drinking water beginning in 2014. Now Jackson, Mississippi, doesn’t have clean water due to aging infrastructure that the state hasn’t upgraded in decades.
Despite the reduction in acreage, demand for water is still high, and farmers and rural communities are already trying to do more with less. replenishes groundwater stores, Michael said. And he uses a relatively simple technology, GPS, to level the fields so water shoots across it uniformly.Around six years ago, he was looking for some new technology to help the farm save even more resources and reduce expenses. He started talking to AgMonitor, a San Mateo-based startup building software to help farmers monitor water and energy usage to lower costs while increasing profitability.
“California is always forced to innovate even in agriculture in the mix of crops and technologies,” Jerphagnon said, and over the next couple of years, there will continue to be a transformation in resource usage across the food and agriculture sector as the industry moves away from gas-powered vehicles to electric vehicles.
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