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Amount of water used for biofuels
About 7,130 cubic kms of water is used for food production, the IWMI says. One cubic kilometer is the volume of a cube with each side being one kilometer. It contains 1,000 trillion liters. The runoff of the Nile river, is about 85 cubic kilolitres. Right now, biofuel crops use about 100 cubic kilometers, or 1 percent of the total for food. Assuming biofuel usage rises as many expect, IWMI findings point to 180 cubic kilometers of water for irrigation being used for biofuel by 2030 - Read More