Food And Clean Water: Two Conflicting Necessities of Life
2019
KOÇUM, Esra
Human societies depend on limited natural resources of our planet for their existence and economic development. Rise in human population and per capitaconsumption increases the human share of natural resources. In particular development in agriculture to meet the escalating demand for food has resultedin various environmental problems. The share of agriculture in water use represents the 70 % of the global total making water quantity and quality relatedproblems foremost impacts of agriculture on the environment. In this brief review environmental costs of agriculture on our limited freshwater resources havebeen summarized to draw attention to this critical issue.
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