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- A quarter of world population lacks safe drinking water, U. N . . .
With agriculture using 70% of all water globally, Connor said, irrigation for crops has to be more efficient — as it is in some countries that now use drip irrigation, which saves water
- UN World Water Development Report 2017 - Wastewater, the . . .
The 2017 edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR 2017) demonstrates how improved wastewater management generates social, environmental and economic benefits essential for sustainable development and is essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development The
- Water use in a changing world - Nature Climate Change
Warziniack and colleagues find that water withdrawals for irrigated agriculture are expected to increase from 160 billion m 3 in 2015 to 185 billion m 3 by 2070 Irrigated agriculture is already
- State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and . . .
If we keep to the current trajectory, producing the additional 50 per cent more food needed could mean water withdrawals for agriculture increasing by up to 35 per cent, according to the synthesis report State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture – Systems at breaking point (SOLAW 2021), published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in
- Achieving sustainable irrigation water withdrawals: global . . .
Alexandratos N and Bruinsma J 2012 ESA Working Paper (Rome: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations) World agriculture towards 2030 2050: the 2012 revision (No 12-03) Google Scholar Amarasinghe U A and Smakhtin V 2014 Global water demand projections: past, present and future IWMI Research Report 156 (Colombo: International
- United States - Annual freshwater withdrawals - IndexMundi
Annual freshwater withdrawals, agriculture (% of total freshwater withdrawal) in United States was 39 66 as of 2017 Its highest value over the past 35 years was 39 66 in 2017, while its lowest value was 26 29 in 1982 Definition: Annual freshwater withdrawals refer to total water withdrawals, not counting evaporation losses from storage basins
- Feeding Cities: Food Security and Ecosystem Support in an . . .
The nine boundaries are not independent, but rather have many interconnections across clusters of them For example, land-use change, the N and P cycles, freshwater use and terrestrial biodiversity loss are all closely interrelated around the extraction of resources and other ecosystem services, but food production is the dominant driver in each case
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