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IRRI on Friday entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with JISL for collaborative research and adaptive field trials on paddy using micro irrigation. Jain Irrigation will closely work with IRRI's scientists to determine optimal irrigation and fertigation systems for irrigated rice and wheat.

Israel’s got one of the most advanced water desalination programs in the world and dozens of successful water conservation and reclamation projects. Now, cutting-edge Israeli research on water technology will make its way to American academia, as the University of Chicago and Ben-Gurion University have signed a partnership agreement to create new water production and purification technologies for deployment in regions of the globe where freshwater resources are scarce — based on nanotechnology.

Institutes from India and the University of Nebraska have agreed to collaborate on research that will include studies of how crops react to drought.

An agreement signed last week in New Delhi links the Indian Council of Agricultural Research with the University of Nebraska's Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute.

University President J.B. Milliken says the agreement "provides for cooperative development in water and food security - critical areas in Nebraska, India and around the world."

Wilcox is currently on a three-month scientific exchange program in northeastern Brazil. He is collaborating with scientists from the Universidade Federal Rural de Perambuco to better understand the influence of land cover change on the water cycle. He is also teaching a graduate level course in ecohydrology and helping to advise graduate students.