Geography of Bahrain - Resources and Land Use

Resources and Land Use

Natural resources:

  • oil, associated and non associated natural gas, fish, pearls

Land use:

  • arable land: 2.82%
  • permanent crops: 5.63%
  • other: 91.55% (2005)

Irrigated land: 40 km² (2003)

Total renewable water resources: 0.1 m³ (1997)

Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):

  • total: 0.3 km³/yr (40%/3%/57%)
  • per capita: 411 m³/yr (2000)

Read more about this topic:  Geography Of Bahrain

Famous quotes containing the words resources and/or land:

    “In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn’t the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England
    This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
    . . .
    This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)