Sentences with phrase «virtual water»

One of their goals: to have nutrition labels list virtual water content, right next to the calories.

Think of existing channels as virtual water coolers.

Ignacio Rodriguez - Iturbe of Princeton University and Samir Suweis of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have built the first mathematical model of the global virtual water trade network, using the UN Food and Agricultural Organization's data on trade in barley, corn, rice, soya beans, wheat, beef, pork, and poultry in 2000.

Modestly, though, he credits the environmental movement for propelling virtual water into the limelight.

Dominant virtual water exporters in addition to the United States are Canada, Australia, Argentina, and Thailand.

That amount is called virtual water (pdf), and it's the kind of thing you don't really consider until someone brings it to your attention: «Do you know how much water it took to make this?»

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.

We've included «insight groups» which are like virtual water coolers where your learners can congregate and discuss the nerdy minutiae of their jobs.

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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.

Since 2002 Allan has worked with Arjen Hoekstra, professor of multidisciplinary water management at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, to create consumer awareness about virtual water.

Virtual water matters a lot these days because we are in an encroaching global water crisis.

Proper management and use of the world's virtual water already save almost 5 percent of the water used annually in global agricultural production, according to Unesco.

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

As Romans traded this crop, they also traded the water needed to produce it - they exchanged virtual water.

«We simulated virtual water trade based on virtual - water - poor regions (urban centres, such as Rome) demanding grain from the nearest virtual - water - rich region (agricultural regions, such as the Nile basin) in the network,» explains Dermody.

Using virtual water as a policy tool only makes sense if you take water scarcity into account.»

Unsurprisingly, that is to the film's benefit, as even the best virtual water isn't going to have the same impact as tanks filling halls and stairways with the unmistakable genuine article.

Indeed, there was a heated debate around the TreeHugger virtual water cooler regarding our feelings about this announcement.

In one example, the patent says regarding the hang glider experience, «The passengers may drop virtual water balloons onto features in the environment.»

Through food trade, these water resources are transferred across borders in what's called a «virtual water trade.»

Trade in agricultural commodities thus amounts to trade in virtual water.

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.

They determined the amount of water transferred in kilograms by multiplying the traded volume of a specific food item by the water used to produce a unit of this item (the item's «virtual water content») in the exporting province.

You can use it in lots of effective ways, from cutting down on internal e-mailing to creating a virtual water cooler.

Both Facebook and Twitter seem to think there's money in so - called «social television,» or people having virtual water - cooler discussions on those respective services while shows air.

Correction: Within our project management software we have created a «virtual water cooler» where we post fun questions to learn more about each other, instantly chat with other team members (about work or personal things) and on Friday's we encourage everyone to give virtual «high - fives» to others who have gone above and beyond the call of duty that week.

I am a Disney nut through and through who often has a Vanilla Coke in one hand and enjoying my virtual water cooler of Social Media in the other.

They then placed the models in virtual water, and looked at how easily they tipped over.

Last year, Paolo D'Odorico of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville showed that a rise in the virtual water trade makes societies less resilient to severe droughts (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029 / 2010GL043167).

A new study into how this virtual water moves around the world offers an explanation for the leasing strategy.

China and India are not currently major players in the virtual water network on a per capita basis, and as the network evolves they could find themselves increasingly vulnerable to market forces and end up paying more for the food they import.

«A rise in the virtual water trade make societies less resilient to drought by exploiting unused supplies»

Such imports are equivalent to importing «virtual water», since food production accounts for nearly 80 per cent of annual freshwater usage.

So the virtual water of this pound of wheat is 155 gallons.

(See «What's Your Virtual Water IQ?»

Right now we lose 30 to 50 percent of the food we grow — and all the virtual water in it — by the time it is ready for consumption, says Daniel Zimmer, executive director of the World Water Council (WWC) in Marseille, France.

«At the global level, virtual water and the trading of it has geopolitical implications,» the WWC says in a report on the subject (pdf).