The water footprint and virtual water exports of Spanish tomatoes

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D. CHICO et al. 31the water footprint. In these cases, the small share of a particularproduction system and/or season of the provincialproduction is probably a source of bias. For example, in thecase of Sevilla province, the average area under greenhouseis 33 ha compared to 2196 ha of tomato production or 13 haof rainfed tomato in Las Palmas province compared to 2031ha cultivated annually for tomato production. These smallsurfaces, together with recorded yields, as shown in the statisticaldatabases should probably be reviewed.4.2. Water apparent productivity of surfaceor groundwaterIn this section, the water apparent productivity is analyseddepending on the origin of water; ground or surface water.Information on the origin of irrigation water specifically forhorticultural production in each province is not directly available.However, in some of the main productions provinces,the water is overwhelmingly of a specific origin; surface inthe case of Badajoz, Cáceres and Navarra provinces (CHG,2008) and groundwater in the case of Almería (Regional Governmentof Andalusia 2003) and Canary Islands (Las Palmasand Tenerife provinces). These six provinces represent 61%of the yearly national production.The origin of the water is related to the production system.In these cases, the provinces using surface water producearound 98% of their production in open-air systems while thetwo provinces accounted for with groundwater produce over90% of their tomatoes in greenhouses. As seen in Table 4 thegroundwater apparent productivity is notably higher than surfacewater productivity. It clearly exceeds the average productivityof blue water used in irrigated agriculture in Spain,which is about 0.44 €/m 3 according to the Spanish Ministry ofthe Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs (MARM, 2007).
32 THE WATER FOOTPRINT OF TOMATO PRODUCTIONTABLE 6. Water apparent productivity of surface and groundwater irrigation (€/m 3 )Open-airirrigated WAP(€/m 3 )Greenhouse Early season Middle season Late season Av. WAPWAP (€/m 3 ) WAP (€/m 3 ) WAP (€/m 3 ) WAP (€/m 3 ) €/m 3 )Surface 3.0 6.4 2.8 4.7 3.0Groundwater 4.1 7.6 6.5 3.7 10.5 7.2
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