Sentences with phrase «of virtual water»

«Australia is a massive net exporter of virtual water, in other words, water we take to grow crops that we grow for export, such as wheat, rice, cotton,» Mr Jarvis said.

For example, the provinces of Shanghai, Shandong, Beijing, and Tianjin import large amounts of virtual water at the expense of less - developed provinces such as Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Hebei.

This is a great segue to the concept of virtual water, which opens up some international trade dimensions to the discussion.

The model shows that a small number of countries have a large number of connections to other countries, offering them a steady and cheap supply of virtual water even if some connections are compromised by drought or political upheaval.

Your story «Land - grab strategy doesn't hold water» (28 May, p 10), on the flow of virtual water between countries in...

though it takes a certain amount of water to grow crops, a large proportion of this water transpires and goes toward more precipitation and thus the measurement of virtual water is suspect.

But the reality of the virtual water trade is starkly different.

Europe, not a notoriously dry continent, is one of the main importers of virtual water in the world, often from places that regularly experience droughts and shortages.

I was not familiar with the idea of virtual water — add that to the carbon cost of imported items and you have to really wonder why we need that out of season tomato...

Another example (of many things I didn't know about) was the concept of virtual water, briefly hinted at in Wendy's post, that there is a hidden cost in most products we produce of the amount of water it takes to produce the item.