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CONSERVE Team Publishes 15 articles in Special Issue of Environmental Research

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Oct 28, 2019
4 min

CONSERVE Team Publishes 15 articles in Special Issue of Environmental Research

Press Release See here for the site’s reposting policy. We’re running out of water to grow food. Climate change, population growth and increasing demands on freshwater systems are straining agricultural water supplies. The CONSERVE Center of Excellence, based in the University of Maryland School of Public Health, is leading the effort to develop and adopt safe, alternative irrigation strategies that will sustain food production. These include the use of non-traditional water

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Apr 26, 2017
2 min

What’s So Great About Water Reuse?

By Rachel Rosenberg Goldstein We usually think of water as a renewable source, but this isn’t technically true – all water that exists today, is the same water that has always existed, and it is the only water that will ever be available (view this video from EPA to get a better idea about how water moves through the hydrologic cycle on earth. There are no new sources of water, but how we use water can change. As climate changes and population grows, we are increasingly stres

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Apr 1, 2016
3 min

Weekly News Update: April 1st, 2016

By Mayhah Suri Wicomico County Putting Stricter Zoning Regulations on Chicken Houses As it stands now the zoning regulations in Wicomico County say a poultry house can be no less than 100 ft. away from residential dwellings, which is about a third of a football field. Monday the county council held a special work session to change that. During the work session council members approved a draft that would create setbacks of 400 ft. in A-1 agricultural areas, and a minimum of 5

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College Park faculty join CONSERVE, with $10M award from USDA to facilitate water reuse solutions

Paul Goeringer

Mar 31, 2016
3 min

College Park faculty join CONSERVE, with $10M award from USDA to facilitate water reuse solutions

By Ashley Ellixson and Paul Goeringer This press release can also be found on the AREC website. College Park, MD – Specialists in the field of agricultural law and water from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AREC) in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources will play key roles in a new multidisciplinary effort to develop innovative, safe and sustainable ways to irrigate food crops in variable climates. The “CONSERVE” Center of Excellence, establi

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