Water management practices in Syria have changed and that’s visible from space.
Researchers have now shown that both agricultural irrigation – the amount of land being watered by farmers – and reservoir storage has decreased by nearly 50 percent in the region, compared with the start of the war. And the impact is so huge, they can even see it from space. Using satellite imagery processed in the Google Earth Engine, a team from Stanford University in California was able to show how the country’s reservoirs looked in 2012, just a few months after the war started, compared to 2015.
