Current water management practices are unlikely to be adequate for addressing new and additional challenges resulting from climate change. Refinements in water management practices and policies are needed.

Pick ONE you think could/should be adopted by the food companies. Why? Or you can use a strategy not listed here . In your essay be sure to explain the cost and benefits of the strategy you present.

• Improved prospecting and extraction of groundwater
• Expanded use of economic incentives, including (but not limited to) metering and pricing to encourage water conservation in communities near the factories and plants.
• Desalination of sea water
• Expansion of rainwater capture and storage
• Improvement of water use efficiency by recycling water in industrial processes
• Increase of storage capacity by building reservoirs and dams in communities near agricultural and food industry locations
• Reduction in water demand for irrigation by changing cropping calendar, crop mix, irrigation method and/or area planted