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Agriculture
AQUASTAT online database
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Land
Population
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Water Balance Sheet
Water Management
Water Resources and Climate
Water Withdrawal and Use
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Abstraction of fossil groundwater
Agricultural water managed area: total
Agricultural water requirement
Agricultural water requirement as % of agricultural water withdrawal
Agricultural water withdrawal
Agricultural water withdrawal as % of total renewable water resources (actual)
Agricultural water withdrawal as % of total water withdrawal
Agriculture, value added to GDP
Agro-ecological zones
Agroforestry
Aquifer
Aquifer, confined
Aquifer, leaky
Aquifer, unconfined
Aquitard
Arable land
Area actually irrigated as % of area equipped for irrigation
Area equipped for full control irrigation by groundwater
Area equipped for full control irrigation by other sources
Area equipped for full control irrigation by surface water
Area equipped for irrigation: actually irrigated
Area equipped for irrigation: equipped lowland areas
Area equipped for irrigation: full control localized irrigation
Area equipped for irrigation: full control sprinkler irrigation
Area equipped for irrigation: full control surface irrigation
Area equipped for irrigation: full control - total
Area equipped for irrigation: partially drained
Area equipped for irrigation: power irrigated area
Area equipped for irrigation: spate irrigation
Area equipped for irrigation: total
Area equipped for irrigation as % of agricultural water managed area
Area equipped for irrigation as % of cultivated area
Area equipped for irrigation as % of irrigation potential
Area irrigated by groundwater as % of area equipped for full control irrigation
Area irrigated by mixed and other sources of water as % of area equipped for full control irrigation
Area irrigated by surface water as % of area equipped for full control irrigation
Area salinized by irrigation
Area waterlogged by irrigation
Area waterlogged not irrigated
Average cost of drainage development in public schemes
Average precipitation in depth
Average precipitation in volume
Base flow
Basin
Basin irrigation
Bench
Biodiversity
Bio-drainage
Blue water
Borderstrip irrigation
Bund
Canal evaporation losses
Capital cost
Catchment area
Cistern, Venetian Cistern (or sand-filled reservoir)
Climate
Command area for irrigation
Conservation Agriculture
Consumptive water use
Contamination
Contingent valuation
Contour line
Conveyance canal
Conveyance losses
Corrugation irrigation
Cost-benefit analysis
Cost of drainage development in private schemes (average)
Cost of irrigation development in private schemes (average)
Cost of irrigation development in public schemes (average)
Cost of irrigation rehabilitation in private schemes (average)
Cost of irrigation rehabilitation in public schemes (average)
Cost of localized irrigation: on-farm
Cost of operation and maintenance in private schemes (average)
Cost of operation and maintenance in public schemes (average)
Cost of sprinkler irrigation: on-farm (average)
Crop
Crop consumptive water use
Crop irrigation water requirement
Cropping pattern
Cropping system
Crop rotation
Crops, annual
Crops, perennial
Crop water productivity
Crop water requirement
Crop yield
Cultivated area
Cultivated wetlands and inland valley bottoms non-equipped
Cut-off drain
Dam
Dam silting
Delivery structures
Delta
Demand (economy)
Demand management of water resources
Dependency ratio
Depletion rate of renewable groundwater resources
Desalinated water produced
Desalination
Direct use value
Diversion channel
Domestic water withdrawal
Drain, sub-surface
Drain, surface
Drainage
Drainage, horizontal
Drainage, vertical
Drainage Basin
Drained area: total
Drained area as % of area equipped for full control surface irrigation
Drained cultivated area as % of total cultivated area
Drip irrigation
Drought
Dry spell
Economically active population
Economic efficiency
Economic value of unit of irrigation water
Effective rainfall
Efficiency, conveyance
Efficiency, distribution system
Efficiency, farm
Efficiency, field application
Efficiency, field canal
Efficiency, irrigation
Efficiency, overall irrigation
Efficiency, project
Effluent
Environmental impact assessment
Evaporation
Evaporation from artificial lakes and reservoirs
Evapotranspiration
Expected time that fossil groundwater will last
Exploitable: irregular renewable surface water
Exploitable: regular renewable groundwater
Exploitable: regular renewable surface water
Fallow
Farmer, Commercial
Farmer, emerging smallholder
Farmer Smallholder
Female economically active population in agriculture
Field capacity
Flood
Flood control works
Flood irrigation
Flood-protected area
Flood recession cropping area
Flood recession cropping area non-equipped
Flood water harvesting
Flow
Food security
Fossil Groundwater
Free flooding
Freshwater
Freshwater
Freshwater withdrawal as % of internal renewable water resources
Fully automatic irrigation system
Fungicide
Furrow
Furrow irrigation
Gabion
Gender
Gender analysis
Gender mainstreaming
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Glacier
Global positioning system (GPS)
Global Warming
Gravity irrigation
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases (GHGs)
Green water
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Groundwater: entering the country (natural)
Groundwater: leaving the country
Groundwater: produced internally
Groundwater: total renewable (actual)
Groundwater: total renewable (natural)
Groundwater balance
Groundwater recharge
Groundwater table
Groundwater withdrawal
Gully
Harvested irrigated crop area: [name of crop]
Harvested irrigated crop area: Total
Harvest index
Herbicide
Household
Human Development Index (HDI)
Impoundment
Indirect opportunity cost
Indirect use value
Individual irrigation systems
Industrial water withdrawal
Industrial water withdrawal as % of total water withdrawal
Informal Irrigation
Inland Valley Bottom
In – situ water conservation (or 'in-situ moisture conservation')
Interest (economy)
Intrinsic value
Irrigated crop yield: [name of crop]
Irrigated grain production as % of total grain production
Irrigation
Irrigation frequency
Irrigation infrastructure
Irrigation land levelling
Irrigation Management Transfer
Irrigation potential
Irrigation scheduling
Irrigation scheme
Irrigation water requirement
Irrigation water requirement, gross
Irrigation water requirement, net
Kareze or Qanat or Kanat
Land cover
Land evaluation and classification
Landform
Land levelling
Land resources
Landscape
Land surveying
Land use
Land use planning
Leaching requirement
Length of Growing period (LGP)
Lift irrigation
Livelihood
Localized irrigation
Low flow
Lowland
Male economically active population in agriculture
Malnutrition
Mangrove
Market
Marsh
Micro-basin
Micro-irrigation
Mixed cropping
Model
Mole drain
Monitoring
Monocrop
Monoculture
Multiple use of water
Municipal water withdrawal
Municipal water withdrawal as % of total water withdrawal
Municipal water withdrawal per capita
Natural inflow
Net present value
Non-conventional sources of water
Non-irrigated cultivated area: partially drained
Non-public water supply
Non-renewable water resources
Non-use value
Opportunity cost
Organic agriculture
Organic Soils
Other agricultural water managed area
Overlap between surface water and groundwater
Peri-Urban
Permanent crops
Pesticide
Policy
Pollution
Population affected by water related diseases
Population density
Potential evapotranspiration (PET)
Potential yield
Power irrigated area as % of area equipped for irrigation
Power irrigation
Precipitation
Public good
Public water supply
Pump irrigation
Rainfed farming
Rainwater harvesting
Reference crop evapotranspiration
Remote Sensing
Renewable resources
Reservoir
Resilience
Reused agricultural drainage water
Rill
River
River basin
Roof water harvesting
Runoff
Runoff farming
Rural population
Rural population with access to safe drinking-water
Sabkha
Safe yield of water systems
Salinization
Salinized area as % of area equipped for full control irrigation
Sanitation
Secondary water
Sediment accumulation
Sewage
Shadow price
Social cost
Soil
Soil, clay Loam
Soil, heavy clay
Soil, light clay
Soil, loam
Soil, loamy sand
Soil, sand
Soil, silt loam
Soil and water conservation
Soil Erosion
Soil moisture
Soil texture
Soil-water potential
Spate irrigation
Sprinkler irrigation
Stakeholder
Stream
Stream flow
Subsistence farming
Supplementary irrigation
Supply (economy)
Supply management of water resources
Surface irrigation
Surface water: accounted flow of border rivers (actual)
Surface water: accounted flow of border rivers (natural)
Surface water: accounted inflow (actual)
Surface water: accounted inflow (natural)
Surface water: accounted part of border lakes (actual)
Surface water: accounted part of border lakes (natural)
Surface water: entering and bordering the country (actual)
Surface water: entering the country (natural)
Surface water: inflow not submitted to treaties
Surface water: inflow secured through treaties (actual)
Surface water: inflow submitted to treaties (actual)
Surface water: leaving the country
Surface water: outflow not submitted to treaties (actual)
Surface water: outflow submitted to treaties (actual)
Surface water: outflow to be reserved through treaties
Surface water: produced internally
Surface water: total external renewable (actual)
Surface water: total external renewable (natural)
Surface water: total flow of border rivers (actual)
Surface water: total flow of border rivers (natural)
Surface water: total renewable (actual)
Surface water: total renewable (natural)
Surface water withdrawal
Surrogate market price
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Swamp
Temporary crop area
Tensiometer
Tidal Current
Topography
Total area
Total area of large irrigation schemes
Total area of medium irrigation schemes
Total area of small irrigation schemes
Total dam capacity
Total economically active population
Total economically active population in agriculture
Total freshwater withdrawal (surface water + groundwater)
Total freshwater withdrawal as % of total renewable water resources (actual)
Total number of households in irrigation
Total population
Total population with access to safe drinking-water
Total valuation of a wetland
Total water withdrawal (summed by sector)
Total water withdrawal per capita
Toxicity
Transpiration
Treated wastewater reused
Treaty
Turbidity
Unaccounted for water
Urban and peri-urban agriculture
Urban population
Urban population with access to safe drinking-water
Valuation
Value
Vector control
Vegetative cover
Virtual water
Vulnerability
Wadi or Ouedd
Wastewater
Wastewater: generated volume
Wastewater: treated volume
Water, brackish
Water balance
Waterborne diseases
Water charge
Water control
Water control structures
Water Cycle
Water fees
Water harvesting
Waterlogging
Water management
Water Price
Water productivity
Water quality
Water quality criteria
Water-related diseases
Water resources, actual
Water resources, natural
Water resources: produced internally in a 10th dry year frequency
Water resources: total exploitable
Water resources: total external renewable (actual)
Water resources: total external renewable (natural)
Water resources: total internal renewable
Water resources: total internal renewable per capita
Water resources: total renewable (actual)
Water resources: total renewable (natural)
Water resources: total renewable per capita (actual)
Water resources: total renewable per capita (natural)
Water resources assessment
Watershed
Watershed management
Water stock
Water Tariff
Water use efficiency
Water user association (WUA)
Well Capacity
Wetland
Wetland function
Wetland impact analysis
Wild flooding
Willingness to pay
Wilting point
Wilting point, permanent
Withdrawn water, consumed
Withdrawn water, not consumed
