Table 5 Green and blue water for the year 2016.
From: The green and blue crop water requirement WATNEEDS model and its global gridded outputs
Crop year 2016 | Total Green Water [km3] | Total Blue Water [km3] | Percentage of green water from irrigated land |
|---|---|---|---|
Wheat | 760 | 181 | 20.2% |
Maize | 682 | 65 | 16.0% |
Rice | 658 | 253 | 54.3% |
Barley | 164 | 10 | 6.0% |
Rye | 40 | 1 | 3.4% |
Millet | 127 | 3 | 4.2% |
Sorghum | 172 | 10 | 5.9% |
Soybeans | 421 | 11 | 6.5% |
Sunflower | 83 | 4 | 4.4% |
Potatoes | 65 | 13 | 13.7% |
Cassava | 133 | 0 | 0.0% |
Sugar cane | 168 | 63 | 41.9% |
Sugar beets | 22 | 9 | 15.5% |
Oil palm | 100 | 0 | 0.1% |
Rapeseed | 59 | 7 | 7.8% |
Groundnuts | 85 | 7 | 15.2% |
Pulses | 175 | 22 | 4.8% |
Citrus | 45 | 21 | 38.3% |
Date palm | 2 | 11 | 68.1% |
Grapes | 28 | 7 | 19.4% |
Cotton | 142 | 76 | 37.3% |
Cocoa | 60 | 0 | 0.2% |
Coffee | 96 | 1 | 1.3% |
Others perennial | 484 | 83 | 11.7% |
Fodder grasses | 616 | 91 | 8.0% |
Others annual | 354 | 57 | 10.9% |
Total | 5741 | 1005 | 16.0% |
