Agriculture, food and water.

Producing our daily food requires one thousand times more water than we use to drink and one hundred times more than we use to meet our basic personal needs. Rainfed agriculture alone cannot ensure global food supply, and up to 70 percent of the water we take from rivers and aquifers goes into irri...

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Bibliographic Details

Online Access:	access online version
Corporate Author:	World Water Assessment Programme (United Nations)
Other title:	Water for people, water for life.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Rome] : FAO, ©2003.
Subjects:	Water in agriculture. Water resources development.