Freshwater under threat: South Asia

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationEarly Warning and Assessment Division
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Asia
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-11T19:59:09Z
dc.date.available2016-10-11T19:59:09Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.descriptionThe South Asian countries (Afghanistanen
dc.descriptionBangladeshen
dc.descriptionBhutanen
dc.descriptionIndiaen
dc.descriptionIranen
dc.descriptionMaldivesen
dc.descriptionNepalen
dc.descriptionPakistanen
dc.descriptionSri Lanka) are home to about one-fourth of the world's population, but only contain about 4.5 per cent (1,945 billion m3) of the world's annual renewable water resources (43,659 billion m3). Except for Bhutan and Nepal, the per capita water availability in the region is less than the world average, with water use in this region being limited mainly to the agriculture sector. Almost 95 per cent of the withdrawn water is consumed by the agriculture sector, a much larger proportion than the average global agricultural water use (70 per cent). In contrast, the region generally exhibits very limited water use in the industrial and domestic sectors.en
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dc.identifier.isbn978-92-807-2949-8
dc.identifier.otherDEW/1102/BA
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7715
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.relation695
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.titleFreshwater under threat: South Asiaen
dc.typeTechnical report
wd.identifier.sdgiohttp://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000040
wd.identifier.sdgiohttp://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000037

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