first estimation of irrigation water requirement of residential kitchen gardens (RGs) located in the urban area of the city of Rome (Italy) in order to understand the amount of water required by private cultivated parcels as one of component to consider in the urban water management.
a sustainability scenario is defined under the hypothesis that each cultivated parcel has a nearby roof collecting rainwater to be exploited during the irrigation season (April-September). The computation is based on a spatial dataset created in 2014 by the Italian Institute of Agricultural Economics (INEA) containing all the cultivated RGs located inside the urban area of Rome.