Water Footprint of Agricultural ProductsWater is a greatest gift of nature and it is an essential necessity of all living organism to survive in earth. Due to the over exposure of industrialization and urbanization the quantity and the...
Cai et al. (2012) used a regional input–output model to calculate the water footprint in Gansu Province and found a reduction in agricultural water use at the regional level is a key measure for lowering the water footprint of agricultural products. Zeng et al. (2012) studied the water ...
Fresh water is a finite resource that is critically needed bysociety for a variety of purposes. The demand for freshwater will grow as the world population and global livingstandard increase, and fresh water shortages will becomemore commonplace. This wi
The wool industry contributes significantly to water consumption and discharge pollutants through the long and complex production chain of wool products. To date, limited research has been conducted to account for and assess the water footprint of wool products, with majority of studies focusing on ...
An indicator of both direct and indirect water use by a consumer or producer. The water footprint of an individual, community or business is defined as the total volume of freshwater used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual or community or produced by the business ...
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it is also often referred to as “embedded,”“embodied,” or “virtual” water. A full measure, therefore, of the water footprint of an individual, industrial sector, or society is the combination of direct water use and the water used indirectly to provide the goods and services consumed...
The methods used in majority of these studies for accounting water footprint fall into two categories: production tree method and input-output model. The production tree method has been more commonly applied to account for the water footprint of agricultural and animal products, including crop (...
The concept of water footprint can be applied to business companies to provide indications about the sustainability of their production process. We considered the case of pasta production from a large-sized company, Barilla. The water footprint of 1 kg of Barilla pasta has been shown to range ...
summarizes the global average water footprint of primary crop products and derived crop products for potential biojet fuel feedstocks. Derived crop products rather than primary crop products are selected as the components often have different water footprint compositions from the primary crop products....