Florida's New Crop: Is Water Farming For You?

摘要

One of the biggest challenges of water management is getting water in the right place at the right time in the right amount. Government agencies and water users are constantly seeking alternative ways to expand the "water pie" during dry times and avoiding flooding during the wet season. As with any commodity, there are supply-side and demand-side approaches-in this case ranging from water conservation to desalination to aquifer storage and recovery, and myriad creative solutions in between. One supply-side alternative being explored in South Florida attempts to control the flow and storage of water through contracts with private landowners in a water farming program known as dispersed water management (DWM). DWM is defined as "shallow water distributed across parcel landscapes using relatively simple structures."