Water scarcity in agriculture: An overview of causes, impacts and approaches for reducing the risks
University of Bari Aldo Moro · University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Abstract
Freshwater is a vital resource for both ecosystem health and human survival, and it is the natural resource that is the most extracted at the global level. Excessive freshwater consumption can be responsible for a scarcity in the circulation rate, which occurs when the freshwater demand exceeds its availability. Hence, water consumption needs to be optimised in all human activities, given the increasing freshwater scarcity due to climate changes and to the annual net increase in the human population of 81,000,000. Freshwater plays many important roles in daily life for example, agriculture is responsible for nearly 70% of that withdrawal volume, and it is therefore, the most water-intensive sector. This puts…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 65.18
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 80
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4Topics & keywords
- Water scarcity
- Scarcity
- Natural resource economics
- Water use
- Agriculture
- Water resources
- Context (archaeology)
- Business
- Zero hunger