On-farm water capture and reuse: performance demonstration, economic feasibility, and design tool development

The project will demonstrate and evaluate the performance and economic feasibility of on-farm water capture and use for supplemental irrigation as a promising practice for: i) increasing crop production resilience to frequent and long dry periods during the crop growing season; ii) protecting water quality by reducing the amount of agricultural runoff enriched with nutrients, sediment, and other agrochemicals that reaches downstream surface water bodies; and iii) potentially mitigating flooding impacts of extreme storm events that annually hit the coastal communities in southeastern U.S. by temporarily storing runoff in the agricultural landscape.