Feed-associated water use amounts to 344 m3 per tonne Pangasius
and is predominantly due to the amount ofwater used for rice
production. Bosma et al. (2011) estimated feed-associated water
consumption at 3472 m3, which is 10 times higher than our result.
This can be explained because Bosma et al. (2011) took the total
water requirement of crops into account, including rainfall