Water lecture to focus on water efficiency

University of Nebraska water lectures are slated to run through April.
University of Nebraska water lectures are slated to run through April.

Eight free public lectures on a varied slate of state and regional water issues will form the University of Nebraska's spring semester water seminar series.

The sixth lecture will take place from 3:30-4:30 p.m., April 2 in the Hardin Hall auditorium. Tim Shaver, nutrient management specialist at the UNL West Central Research and Extension Center, will present "The Potential to Increase Agricultural Water Use Efficiency through Variable Rate Irrigation."

Cosponsoring the lectures with the Nebraska Water Center, part of the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute, is UNL's School of Natural Resources, which also offers the lecture series as a course for student credit.

The complete January through April schedule is posted online at watercenter.unl.edu. Individual lecture videos and speaker PowerPoint presentations will also be posted at that web address within a few days after the lecture.

More details at: http://go.unl.edu/ag9h