Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Thirsty crops and hungry people: Symposium to examine realities of water security

Washington DC (SPX) Feb 26, 2013



You may have guzzled a half-liter bottle of water at lunchtime, but your food and clothes drank a lot more. The same half-liter that quenched your thirst also produces only about one square-inch of bread or one square-inch of cotton cloth.

Agriculture is in fact one of the world's most insatiable consumers of water. And yet it's facing growing competition for water from cities, industry, ...