Redefining the Water Poverty Index
- 1 September 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Water International
- Vol. 25 (3) , 469-473
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060008686855
Abstract
The Water Poverty Index (WPI) of arid and semiarid climatic zones is redefined by introducing the contribution of rainfed agriculture into WPI calculations and by making the WPI equation account for diversities in climatic conditions within arid and semiarid zones and for recycled household water used in irrigation.Keywords
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