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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-307-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-307-2020
Research article
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21 Jan 2020
Research article |  | 21 Jan 2020

Assessment of potential implications of agricultural irrigation policy on surface water scarcity in Brazil

Sebastian Multsch, Maarten S. Krol, Markus Pahlow, André L. C. Assunção, Alberto G. O. P. Barretto, Quirijn de Jong van Lier, and Lutz Breuer

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Expanding irrigation in agriculture is one of Brazil's strategies to increase production. In this study the amount of water required to grow the main crops has been calculated and compared to the water that is available in rivers at least 95 % of the time. Future decisions regarding expanding irrigated cropping areas must, while intensifying production practices, consider the likely regional effects on water scarcity levels, in order to reach sustainable agricultural production.