Water scarcity: Fact or fiction?

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 80, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 5-22

  Rijsberman, Frank R ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Indicators; Irrigation; Water productivity; Water scarcity

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IRRIGATION; WATER RESOURCES;

INDICATORS; WATER PRODUCTIVITY; WATER SCARCITY;

WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IRRIGATION; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; IRRIGATION; RESOURCE SCARCITY; WATER RESOURCE;

IRRIGATION; WATER; WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 31544442665     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2005.07.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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