Water Energy Nexus 2010

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This is a bit dated but may be interesting/educational nonetheless. Themap shows aggregated energy use for Groundwater Pumping around year 2010 in thousand Kilo Watt Hour .

http://www.resourcematics.com/water-energy-nexus/

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  1. It is widely recognised that agriculture is the overwhelmingly largest user of water, but it is not so widely recognised that it may be a significantly dominant user of energy as well. But reducing energy consumption in agriculture is perhaps not receiving as much attention as reducing water use.