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Overview Presentation
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4. From concept to practice
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Water footprint impact assessment
Reducing water footprints
5. Conclusion
6 The way
6. a for
forward
ard
The water footprint
of products
Water footprint of a product
consump
Green water footprint Green water footprint
Wate
Water withdrawal
er
ption
Non-consumptive water
use (return flow)
Blue water footprint Blue water footprint
pollution
Water
Grey water footprint Grey water footprint
The traditional
statistics
on water use
[Hoekstra, 2008]
Assessing the water footprint
off crop and animal products
Water
W t footprint
f t i t off a crop
Crop water use (m3/ha) / Crop yield (ton/ha)
Water footprint
f off an animal
Sum of water for feed, drinking and servicing
cotton C tt seed
Cotton d
Hulling/
g 0.51 Cotton seed
extraction 0.33 cake
0.63
0.10
0.18
0.20
Cotton linters
Harvesting
Cotton plant Seed-cotton Ginning
0.05
0.35 0.10
Garnetted stock
0.82
Knitting/
g
weaving
0.95 0.05
0.99 0.10
Wet processing
1.00
1.00
Fabric
Legend
Finishing
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two components:
internal water footprint inside the country.
external water footprint in other countries.
countries
Water footprint of a nation
= = =
mport
The traditional
Im
statistics
on water use
Regional virtual water balances
(only agricultural trade)
2500
cap/yr)
2000
ootprint (m /c
3
1000
500
0
akistan
Mexico
Russia
hailand
Brazil
onesia
Italy
USA
Nigeria
China
India
Japan
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Indo
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1. Consumption characteristics
Consumption volume
Consumption pattern
2. Production
oduc o circumstances
c cu s a ces
[Hoekstra, 2008]
The water footprint of a consumer
Indirect WF Direct WF
[Hoekstra, 2008]
The water footprint of a retailer
Water footprint
p Carbon footprint
spatial and temporal no spatial / temporal
dimension dimension
actual, locally specific values global
l b l average values
l
always referring to full supply- supply-chain included only in
chain scope
scope 3 carbon accounting
accounting
focus on reducing own water many efforts focused on
footprint (water use units are offsetting (carbon emission
not interchangeable) units are interchangeable)
[Hoekstra, 2009]
Water footprint Life cycle assessment
Water footprint
p LCA
measuring freshwater measuring overall
appropriation environmental impact
multi-dimensional (type of no spatial
i l di
dimension
i
water use, location, timing)
actual water volumes
volumes, no weighing water volumes based
weighing on impacts
WF accounts offer basis for LCA offers basis for comparing
impact assessment and products with respect to
formulation of sustainable overall environmental impact
water use strategy
[Hoekstra, 2009]
From concept to practice
From water footprint accounting to policy formulation
1 2 3
Spatiotemporal- Impacts of the Reduce and
explicit water water footprint offset the
footprint of a environmental negative impacts
product social of the water
individual economic footprint
community
business
[Hoekstra, 2008]
Water footprint impact assessment
Overlay
Water stress
(withdrawal-to-availability)
< 0.3
0.3 - 0.4
04-0
0.4 0.5
5
0.5 - 0.6
0.6 - 0.7
0.7 - 0.8
0.8 - 0.9
0.9 - 1.0
> 1.0
Main producing regions
Producing countries
Hotspots
Water stress
(withdrawal-to-availability)
< 0.3
[Hoekstra, 2008]
Consumer perspective
[Hoekstra, 2008]
Business perspective
[Hoekstra, 2008]
Business / product transparency
W
Water footprint
f i reporting
i
Shared standards
Labelling of products
Certification of businesses
Benchmarking
Quantitative footprint reduction targets
Government perspective
E b ddi water
Embedding t ffootprint
t i t analysis
l i iin llegislation
i l ti
Promoting
gpproduct transparency
p y
through promoting a water label for water-intensive products;
through water-certification of businesses.
Shared responsibility and an incremental approach
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Some b i
businesses actt voluntarily
l t il iin an early
l stage.
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Mission:
Mi i P
Promoting
ti sustainable,
t i bl equitable
it bl andd efficient
ffi i t water
t
use through development of shared standards on water footprint
accountingg and g
guidelines for the reduction and offsetting
g of
impacts of water footprints.
Partners
partners from six continents
research institutions
governmental institutions
non-governmental organisations
large companies from different sectors
branche organisations
consultants
international institutions