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Crop water productivity options to achieve real water savings

Training manual

Year of publication 2025

Place of publication Bangkok, Thailand ;

Pages 52 p.

Author Droogers, P., Kaune, A., Van Opsta, J., Steduto, P., Perry, C

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-140026-5

To cite or share https://doi.org/10.4060/cd6506en

Synopsis (short abstract) Water scarcity continues to grow in many Asian countries as the gap between water demand and supply is projected to increase due to population growth, economic development, land degradation and climate change. The agricultural sector is the largest user of freshwater, and within this, irrigation is the largest consumer. Solutions to reverse water scarcity should focus irrigated agriculture, but many improved irrigation techniques to save water for other uses (such as domestic use and the environment) often actually increase water use at the basin level. This training manual provides a review of water saving technologies and examines the concept of understanding real water savings versus local savings. In this training manual, readers will learn how to use the REWAS and WEAP software tools to estimate real water savings and water productivity at both the irrigation system scale and the basin scale, respectively.

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Droogers, P., Kaune, A., van Opsta, J., Steduto, P. & Perry, C. 2025. Crop water productivity options to achieve real water savings – Training manual. Bangkok, FAO. 


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