Published January 29, 2019
| Version v1
Dataset
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Water Debt
Authors/Creators
- 1. Politecnico di Torino
- 2. University College London
Description
Gridded data of water debt for year 2000. The water debt expresses the number of years required by the hydrological cycle to replenish the water source (soil moisture, surface water, ground water) that have beet used to accomplish the annual production of nine major crops. The considered crops are: wheat, maize, rice, soybean, sugar cane, sugar beet, cotton, barley, sorghum.