The water footprint of humanity

By Arjen Y. Hoekstra, M. Mekonnen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Water Science and Technology

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Trends in Global Agricultural Land Use: Implications for Environmental Health and Food Security. (2018, background): “22 Agricultural production accounts for 92% of the human water footprint, ~77% of which can be attributed to rainfed agricultural systems (76).”
Scientists’ warning to humanity on the freshwater biodiversity crisis (2020, background): “Well-managed watersheds and waterbodies provide critical ecosystem services that maintain local and regional hydro-climatic regimes, and support human food and energy production, waste disposal and remediation, transportation, and recre- ation (Aldaya et al. 2012; Hoekstra and Mekonnen 2012).”
The Observed State of the Water Cycle in the Early Twenty-First Century (2015, background): “riculture, industry, and domestic water supply is about 9100km(3) yr(21) (Hoekstra and Mekonnen 2012), so the magnitudes of these freshwater fluxes are staggering.”
Four billion people facing severe water scarcity (2016, methodology): “Mekonnen and Hoekstra Sci. Adv.”
Environmental and resource footprints in a global context: Europe’s structural deficit in resource endowments (2016, methodology): “For the water footprint, we followed the convention applied by the Water Footprint Network and accounted for hydrological water consumption in m3 per sector (e.g. Hoekstra and Mekonnen, 2012).”
Identifying critical supply chains and final products: An input-output approach to exploring the energy-water-food nexus (2018, background): “While many studies focus on single indicator carbon [19], material [20], labour [21] or water [22] ‘Footprint of Nations’ type studies, there are a number of examples of where two or more indicators are analysed together.”
Global unsustainable virtual water flows in agricultural trade (2019, methodology): “While the virtual water trade associated with agricultural commodities (Konar et al 2011, Hoekstra and Mekonnen 2012), and the regions of unsustainable irrigation have been extensively investigated andmapped (Rosa et al 2018a), the globalized dimension of unsustainable irrigation, the loss of…”
Global agricultural economic water scarcity (2020, methodology): “Assessment of renewable blue water availability Renewable blue water availability (WA) (30 arc min by 30 arc min resolution) was evaluated following Mekonnen and Hoekstra (17) as the difference between blue water flows generated in that grid cell and environmental flow requirements.”
The potential for snow to supply human water demand in the present and future (2015, methodology): “We use the human blue water footprint (Hoekstra and Mekonnen 2012) to estimate NH basin-scale dependence on snow as a water resource.”
Theoretical exploration for the combination of the ecological, energy, carbon, and water footprints: Overview of a footprint family (2014, background): “There is also an average f the data of the water footprint for 140 nations between 1996 nd 2005 (Hoekstra and Mekonnen, 2012).”
The Global Food‐Energy‐Water Nexus (2018, background): “The water footprint of agriculture (including both crops and livestock production) has been estimated in the range 6.75 × 1012 m3/year for the 1995–2005 period (Mekonnen & Hoekstra, 2010) and 11.8 × 1012 m3/year for 2010 (Carr et al., 2013).”