Value of agricultural water

Researchers report that across 16 globally important crops, factoring the increased crop value associated with irrigation results in an average value of water in agriculture of around 0.23 USD/m3; the results provide a spatially distributed global estimation of the value of agricultural water worldwide, even in the absence of water market systems, according to the authors.

Article #20-05835: “The global value of water in agriculture,” by Paolo D’Odorico et al.

MEDIA CONTACT: David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley, CA; e-mail:

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; Paolo D’Odorico, University of California, Berkeley, CA; e-mail:

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