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Management of the Keta Senior High Technical School has started coconut and mango cultivation to generate revenue to address the infrastructure challenges of the School. Mr Isaac Kofi Dzidzienyo, Headmaster of the School, said they had begun with some 1,200 seedlings of coconut and 800 seedlings of mango to raise…
The Turlock Irrigation District in central California is conducting a pilot project to save water and increase power output by putting solar panels over canals. The project might eventually help the state save up to 63 billion gallons of water per year.
Project Nexus is a pilot project that is going to serve as a proof of concept from research done by the University of California Merced. The project looks to provide water supply savings and generate renewable energy by placing solar panels over 250 miles of canals within the San Joaquin Valley.
Covering the 4,000 miles of California's water canals could reduce evaporation by as much as 82 percent, saving about 63 billion gallons of water a year. That's comparable to the same amount needed to irrigate 50,000 acres of farmland or meet the residential water needs of more than 2 million people. Covering all state water canals with solar installations would also generate 13 gigawatts of renewable power, equaling roughly 1/6th of the state's current installed capacity — about half the projected new capacity needed by 2030 to meet the state's decarbonization goals.
With best results, the solar canals will save 65 billion gallons of water from evaporation, and save thousands of acres from development.