At the rolling campus on Raleigh's west side 800 undergraduate and graduate students work with companies, helping to solve everyday problems like reducing energy use, improving supply-chain management, using eco-friendly dyes and developing better fibers.

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In the last decade, main stream corporations like Walmart, General Electric and Waste Management got into the act with eco-innovations to better meet customer and investor expectations.

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The speaker also showed the correlation between irrigation management, crop growth, social benefits related to water and Eco-services.

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