A review of green- and blue-water resources and their trade-offs for future  agricultural production in the Amazon Basin: what could irrigated  agriculture mean for Amazonia?

Lathuillière, Michael J.; Coe, Michael T.; Johnson, Mark S.

doi:10.5194/hess-20-2179-2016

Articles | Volume 20, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-2179-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-2179-2016

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Articles | Volume 20, issue 6

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07 Jun 2016

Review article |

| 07 Jun 2016

A review of green- and blue-water resources and their trade-offs for future agricultural production in the Amazon Basin: what could irrigated agriculture mean for Amazonia?

Michael J. Lathuillière, Michael T. Coe, and Mark S. Johnson

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Short summary

We apply the green- and blue-water perspective to Amazonia's water resources to highlight trade-offs that may arise with future land use change. We question how future irrigation may supply additional water vapour to the atmosphere with growing agricultural production. Maintaining precipitation recycling could prevent degradation of rainfall-dependent terrestrial ecosystems and has the potential to minimize blue-water trade-offs between up- and downstream water users within the Amazon Basin.