By Thomas Odenwald, SVP, Products & Innovation, SAP
Recently CERES invited me with a group of experts to visit California’s Pajaro Valley, home to some of the most productive farmlands in the nation. The Pajaro Valley is largely dependent on groundwater for its farming needs.
Over the past several decades, groundwater pumping for agriculture and municipal use has led to an overdraft of the aquifers, leading to severe dropping of water levels and intrusion of seawater.
Some farmers....