Demand for water is escalating,
contributing to intensified competition among users.
In many areas, giving water to one user means denying it to
another.
China: farmer using a hand-operated pump to draw up
water from canal
FAO photo by F. Botts
More photos in this series:
- India: a poplar plantation thrives on raw sewage water piped directly from nearby homes
- Yemen: with border irrigation, water is retained by small dirt dykes
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