Only nine harvests: how to tackle the impeding water crisis

We will need to sustain 10 B people in this planet by 2050. As food production is driven by water availability, the United Nations expert a raise in freshwater consuption by 30-40% this decade. Already today, more than 70% if all global freshwater resources are used for irrigation of field producting nearly half of global food. To tackle this global challange, the next generation of spacecrafts provide a promising soultion: with the ability to detect water need and water stress on the field level, global water usage and hence global agriculture could be redefined toward a sustainable future of humankind on thi planet.