Water requirements for irrigation in the European Union

Type Report
Title Water requirements for irrigation in the European Union
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2008
URL http://www.enorasis.eu/uploads/files/Water Governance/5.JRC46748_Report_Irrigation_EUR_23453_EN.pdf
Abstract
Agriculture is an essential driving force in the management of water use. Especially in Southern European countries, irrigation is an essential element of agricultural production and agricultural water use has a substantial share in total water use (exceeding 50%). The presented work contributes to the assessment of impacts of irrigated agriculture on water resources at European scale. We developed a modeling approach to estimate irrigation water requirements and regional irrigation water demands in the EU at high spatial resolution. The modeling approach was applied for a first assessment of irrigation water requirements.

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