Water productivity

"Water productivity refers to what we can produce from a unit of input, it is also a ratio of output to input but both do not need to have the same units, e.g. WP is 50kg grains per 1 m3 of water" (Ragab 2014)

Sources

Ragab, Ragab. 2014. “A Note on Water Use Efficiency and Water Productivity.” Water4Crops, 1–11.
 

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