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(4910) Consumptive water use or Consumptive use
The quantity of water used by the vegetation in transpiration and building of plant tissue, plus that evaporated from the soil or from intercepted precipitation, in any specified time. It is expressed in units of water-depth or depth-area per unit area.

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