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This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007 2013 Responding to the water challenge { Melvyn Kay UK Irrigation Association www.ukia.org People

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Responding to the water challenge

Melvyn Kay UK Irrigation Association www.ukia.org

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007–2013

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People generally have little appreciation of the water required to produce our food

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007–2013

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Globally agriculture consumes 70% of water all withdrawals

Food needs a lot of water

Typical European diet requires 3,500 litres/day

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007–2013

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Typical water footprint…

 0.2 lt Hot water  5 lt to grow the tea  18 lt to grow the grass  9.2 lt to grow the cane

Total 32.4 litres

Water Tea Milk Sugar

Source: Dr Tim Hess, Canfield University

Potatoes 1 lt/portion Rice 180 lt/portion Pasta 2 lt/portion

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007–2013

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Irrigation in UK

UK water withdrawals for agriculture are only 1-2%

So what’s the problem?

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007–2013

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Where we use water…

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007–2013

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Our water comes from … (km3)

Households Industry Agriculture 20 40 60 80 Total volume

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007–2013

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Households Industry Agriculture 20 40 60 80 Total volume Internal

Our water comes from … (km3)

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007–2013

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Households Industry Agriculture 20 40 60 80 Total volume Internal Imported

Our water comes from … (km3)

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007–2013

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Use existing supplies wisely

Irrigation strategy…

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007–2013

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Precision irrigation?

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007–2013

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Benchmarking…

http://79.170.40.182/iukdirectory.com/benchmarking/index.php

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007–2013

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Build reservoirs Form abstractor groups

Irrigation strategy…

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007–2013

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Keep up to date

www.ukia.org

Website
Newsletters
Journal
Email news

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007–2013

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Thank you

This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007–2013