Virtual water use & direct water use

1. Assessment of Water Footprints

2. Water Foot Print
• A water footprint is the amount of
water used by an individual,
community, business, or nation.
• Our life style can raise or reduce our
water footprint.

3. Water Foot Print
• Taking a water tour from our
surrounding including: home,
university, clothing, diet, energy and
daily consumption like paper &
electricity etc.

4. Why to assess WF
• How much water does it take to produce our
everyday products.
• How much water is used for everything: Food,
clothing, electricity, paper & transport etc. every
thing is our use is having water in it.

5. Our Foot Print
• Measuring & calculating our foot
print & minus it from total available
sources of water like rivers, lakes,
wetlands, underground aquifers and
freshwater sources.

6. Purpose
• Calculation difference of our water
foot print directly depends on our
lifestyle
• It help us to consider & pledge to
cut our load on freshwater
ecosystems.

7. Arjen’s work
• Water conservation is possible not only by
making direct use careful but to reduce water
footprint of our trade and products.