ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two topics that are usually considered separately. First, the amount of water required by energy-producing plants. Second, two economic sectors - mining and industry - are also water-demanding and are experiencing tremendous growth in the Latin American (LA) region. A detailed treatment of both would request at least a chapter for each of these topics, but being the focus of the volume water and food security, a review of data and their analysis from this narrower perspective has been chosen.
