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New blog article by Dr Edoardo Borgomeo - Rethinking irrigation in a water-scarce world

27 March 2025

Dr Edoardo Borgomeo's recent blog article, Rethinking irrigation in a water-scarce world , discusses the complexities associated with maximising water use efficiency in agriculture. Written with Claudia Sadoff, this article is currently featured in Economist Impact.

ESD MPhil students’ start-up Terracotta Cooling secures runner-up position at the 2024 Cambridge Climate Challenge

2 October 2024

A design proposed by ESD MPhil students Jerrell Ong and Sebastian Lindner-Liaw , working with colleague Eric Tay , has the potential to reduce the energy costs and water consumption involved in cooling data centres in the Global South. The design by Terracotta Cooling would make use of locally sourced and produced...