Sentences with phrase «total water footprint»

Added Vengosh: «Our new study, which integrates data from multiple government and industry sources, provides the first comprehensive assessment of fracking's total water footprint, both nationally and for each of the 10 major U.S. shale gas or tight oil basins.»

While the livestock sector supports livelihoods of one billion of the world's poor, and its products provide one - third of our protein intake, it poses serious threat to our environment: it is responsible for 14.5 percent of GHG emissions, 29 percent of total water footprint of agriculture, and occupies 30 percent of the land surface of the planet.

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In the past, the term «water footprint» has been used to describe calculations of the total amount of «virtual» or «embedded» water used in making a product, without considering variations in growing and manufacturing systems, and with values often averaged across the globe.

When examining the water footprints of two Mars signature products — Peanut M&M's ® and Dolmio ® pasta sauce — the researchers found that M&M's ® used more than five times the total amount of water than the pasta sauce.

As currently defined, a product's water footprint is an inventory of the total amount of water that goes into its manufacture.

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And for those concerned about carbon footprint, all that water is pumped electrically — and the biggest proportion of US electricity, nearly half of the total, is generated by the most carbon intensive method — burning coal.

The water footprint of a person, family, community, nation is the total volume of fresh water used to produce the goods (including food) and services consumed, in other words, the water footprint is the volume of water required to sustain a personal or family lifestyle or indeed a global population;

A country's water footprint, as opposed to simple water use, is the total amount of H2O needed for the production of goods and services.

Cotton's biggest footprint comes during the growing stage, which uses an estimated 68 percent of total water used in the lifecycle of a pair of jeans.