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Water is not a renewable resource. Its total amount on the earth is fixed and its allocation in space and time is governed by the hydrological cycle, on which human intervention plays an important role. Then, if the ever declining quantity of available water to agriculture is faced, while the agricultural yield needs to be sustained, a proportional increase of efficiency in the use of water is required.
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Steduto, P. (1996). Water Use Efficiency. In: Pereira, L.S., Feddes, R.A., Gilley, J.R., Lesaffre, B. (eds) Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture. NATO ASI Series, vol 312. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8700-6_12
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