The textile and food industries are two sectors whose water consumption generates a significant environmental footprint. The production of industries must be focused on sustainability if the organizations for these sectors ...

The term "Water Footprint", makes reference to the total volume of freshwater required in the production of different goods and services that a human being, a society or a country consume. When is about calculating the ...

The sugar-alcohol industry plays a key role in the economics of the province of Tucuman (Argentina). For that reason, the quantification of water volumes consumed during sugarcane growing as well as the water used in the ...

The Virtual Water concept has long been used as an important indicator of water consumption, increasingly being accepted in the literature, becoming the embedded water in the production of a good or service. In order to ...

Understanding water consumption is crucial for sustainable management of water resources. Under climate change scenarios that project highly variable water availability, the need for public policies that assure efficiency ...

This study analyzed the time dynamics of the water footprint of eight soybean cultivars planted in the Western Pará, Amazon. Meteorological data between 2009 and 2014 were used to calculate the crop’s evapotranspiration ...