The increasing demand for irrigation water causes by more frequent droughts requires better management of groundwater bodies. Irrigation agriculture has been established in the Uelzen region for over 60 years and contributes existentially to the preservation of agriculture.
This pilot will focus on adaptation to increasing droughts by reorganizing groundwater extraction for protection of creek runoffs and groundwater dependent terrestrial ecosystems in spite of increasing need for groundwater abstraction, balancing demands for groundwater (nature and irrigation) and upscaling the results from the “triple monitoring” approach developed in the TOPSOIL project (identification of effects of specific groundwater abstractions on small river flows).
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