Tag: Water consumption
-
More harvests but less water consumption in China
China’s annual water consumption in the agricultural irrigation sector has been maintained at around 340 billion cubic meters over the past 30 years, accounting for 56 percent of the country’s total water use, according to a water-saving forum recently held in Jiuquan, northwest China’s Gansu province.With 6 percent of the world’s freshwater and 9 percent…