{"id":805,"date":"2011-07-20T17:05:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T12:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=805"},"modified":"2011-07-20T17:23:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T12:23:32","slug":"did-you-know-facts-and-figures-about-bioenergy-and-agricultural-water-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"Did you know&#8230;? Facts and figures about bioenergy and agricultural water use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bioenergy-and-agricultural-water.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-806 colorbox-805\" title=\"bioenergy-and-agricultural-water\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bioenergy-and-agricultural-water.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bioenergy-and-agricultural-water.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bioenergy-and-agricultural-water-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Around 10% of the total energy supply comes from biomass, and most of that (80%) comes from the &#8216;traditional&#8217; biomass sources of wood, dung and crop residues.<\/li>\n<li>Globally, irrigation water allocated to biofuel production is estimated at 44 km3, or 2% of all irrigation water. Under current production conditions it takes an average of roughly 2,500 litres of water (about 820 litres of it irrigation water) to produce 1 litre of liquid biofuel (the same amount needed on average to produce food for one person for one day).<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>The share of irrigation water used for biofuel production is negligible in Brazil and the European Union and is estimated to be 2% in China and 3% in the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Implementing all current national biofuel policies and plans would take 30 million hectares of cropland and 180 km3 of additional irrigation water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The section &#8220;Did You Know\u2026?&#8221; is taken from the 3rd World Water Development Report &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/water\/wwap\/wwdr\/wwdr3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Water in a Changing World<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/water\/news\/newsletter\/251.shtml#know\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 10% of the total energy supply comes from biomass, and most of that (80%) comes from the &#8216;traditional&#8217; biomass sources of wood, dung and crop residues. Globally, irrigation water allocated to biofuel production is estimated at 44 km3, or 2% of all irrigation water. Under current production conditions it takes an average of roughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}