water footprint
WAW-ter FOOT-print
ˈwɔːtər ˈfʊtprɪntListen
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a measure of human appropriation of fresh water that encompasses the direct and indirect water used in the production of goods and services consumed by an individual, community, business, or nation, differentiated into blue water drawn from surface or groundwater sources, green water derived from soil moisture and rainfall, and grey water representing the volume of water needed to dilute pollutants to acceptable concentrations; developed as a complementary metric to virtual water analysis, the water footprint framework enables the assessment of water dependency and water risk across supply chains and supports benchmarking of water use efficiency in agriculture and industry; global averages suggest that food production accounts for roughly 70 percent of total freshwater withdrawals
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