Research Report Series No 18: The water footprint of cotton consumption docx

... The water footprint of cotton consumption Value of Water A.K. Chapagain A.Y. Hoekstra H.H.G. Savenije R. Gautam September 2005 Research Report Series No. 18 18 / Water footprint of cotton consumption ... need to know the water use associated with the import and export of raw cotton or cotton products. The total water footprint of a country...

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... than their equivalent animal products. The water footprint of the soy milk product analysed in this study is 28% of the water footprint of the global average cow milk. The water footprint of the ... Value of Water Research Report Series No. 12, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, the Netherlands. Available online: www.waterfootprint.org/Reports /Report1 2.pdf ....

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... that the non-consumptive part of water withdrawals (the return ow) is not part of the water footprint. It also shows that, contrary to the measure of water withdrawal’, the water footprint ... representation of the components of a water footprint. It shows that the non-consumptive part of water withdrawals (the return ow) is not part of the...

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... 2006b. The water footprint of cotton consumption: An assessment of the impact of worldwide consumption of cotton products on the water resources in the cotton producing countries. Ecological Economics, ... Netherlands The Dutch water footprint related to the consumption of paper products is significant if compared to the footprint related to...

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... grazing land Footprint of production cannot exceed its biocapacity. Global Footprint Network has significantly improved the calculation of the grazing land Footprint in the 2008 edition of the National ... productivities. The National Footprint Accounts calculate the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity of individual countries and of the world. According to...

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... program to offset the CO 2 emitted from the production of our hybrid vehicles in the U.S. The purchase price of the offset is applied to a project that reduces or sequesters the emission of CO 2 elsewhere. We ... sponsor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Climate Change and the Alliance for Global Susta...

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... and improving the water quality model for Cau River, we carried out the research: “Preliminary assessment and simulation of the water quality of Cau River, Bac Ninh province by mathematical model”. ... standard of Vietnam (TCVN 5942/95/B) [4, 9]. The two reasons for this situation are the discharges of cattle waste into channels then to river and the uses of fert...

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... account of methane’s GWP of 23, each therm of gas produced causes 207.2 g of CO 2 e emis- sions. The natural gas purchased by NBB therefore relates to the emission of 99,165.36 kg of CO 2 e. The ... to the city of Fort Collins, average annual energy consumption at their water treatment facility over the past 9 years was 4,026,793 kWh. During the same period,...

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... the context of valuing the health benefits of reducing air pollution. The analysis of these methodological issues is beyond the purpose of this report. The report is organised as follows. The ... number of studies have been undertaken to estimate the cost of asthma associated with air pollution. In the UK, the Economic Appraisal of the Health Effects o...

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