Sentences with phrase «water footprint means»

Figuring out a country's water footprint means adding all the water used plus the water inherent in products imported, then minus the water in exports.

Not exact matches

serving of Vertical Water has approximately 1/3 the calories, 1/3 the sugar and travels less than 1/3 the distance from forest to table (that means that Vertical Water has a smaller carbon footprint, it is exclusively sourced and bottled in the U.S.).

And they have a low water footprint, are nitrogen - fixing, and give all sorts of good stuff back to the soil in which they're grown, meaning they're good for the environment (pulses are basically the future of sustainable agriculture).

«This means that taking into account the way the water use contributes to local water scarcity, the water footprint of producing 1 L of milk on these farms had the equivalent impact as the direct consumption of only 1.9 L of water.

The uniformly spaced plants crowd out weed growth, the ideal soil mix reduces the need every inch of soil remains aerated and fluffy, all areas of the bed can be reached easily for tending, and the small footprint means water savings.

With humanity's ecological footprint of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person means to say that to sustain the current population on Earth of 7 billion people would take 18.9 billion gha (2.7 gha x 7 billion people) which is higher than the 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water on Earth, a fact that indicates that already exceeded the regenerative capacity of the planet in the average level of current world consumption.

Check out Jasmin's recent post if you want more detail on the twin Farleys.The re-licensing means that the Farley's have many more years of low - carbon footprint operating to come, unless there is a power outage due to low water.

Ethical design means that you have to take it all into account and look at our carbon footprint, our water footprint, our waste footprint.

Ethical Design means we have to weigh all of its footprints; the materials, the manufacturing, the land use, the water supply, the transportation, the size.