Agricultural water withdrawal as % of total renewable water resources

Annual quantity of self-supplied (own use and not for distribution, as opposed to supplied to other economic units) water withdrawn for irrigation, livestock and aquaculture purposes expressed as a percentage of total renewable water resources. It includes water from renewable freshwater resources, as well as water from over-abstraction of renewable groundwater or withdrawal of fossil groundwater, direct use of agricultural drainage water and (treated) wastewater, and desalinated water. Water for the dairy and meat industries and industrial processing of harvested agricultural products is included under industrial water withdrawal.