A new approach to assessing the water footprint of wine: An Italian case study

Lamastra, Lucrezia; Suciu, Nicoleta; Novelli, Elisa; Trevisan, Marco

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.05.063

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“…These can be pollutants in three different ways, namely leaching, runoff and drift. These are calculated separately and only the highest figure is used as it will represent the minimum amount of grey water to dilute contaminants to acceptable regulated levels (Lamastra et al, 2014). This method can be of use in winery industry and indeed other agricultural products that are input intensive, that is, those that require application of a lot of fertilisers and pesticides.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There is therefore need to sustainably and efficiently use this precious commodity through, for example, deliberate decisions to drop economic activities that require a lot of water in favour of those activities that require little water. For that to be practical, the actual water consumption in producing a commodity need to be quantified (Lamastra et al, 2014). As the water footprint concept is gaining significant momentum, there have been growing calls to standardise the calculation methodologies to make the obtained data more useful, both as a policy and as a research tool .…”

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Review of Methodologies of Water Footprint.

Takawira.¹

2017

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Review of Methodologies of Water Footprint.

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2017

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“…Leaching N (kg¨ha´1) is the amount of nitrogen that reaches the groundwater reservoir and it is computed according to Leaching N " Q fert¨fN¨fleaching,N (29) where Q fert (kg¨ha´1) is the amount of nitrogen fertilizer used in the field, f N is the fraction of nitrogen in the fertilizer, and f leaching,N is the fraction of nitrogen that reaches the groundwater reservoir. A constant value of 0.06 is used for f leaching,N [38]. V leaching,i and V leaching,tot are the volumes to dilute the i-th pollutant and the total of pollutants other than nitrates, respectively.…”

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“…V COD = COD C COD ; V BOD = BOD C BOD (38) In this analysis, only dilution volumes for COD and BOD are considered, in the assumption that other pollutant emission in water requires lower dilution volumes.…”

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Water and Carbon Footprint of Wine: Methodology Review and Application to a Case Study

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Life cycle assessments (LCAs) play a strategic role in improving the environmental performance of a company and in supporting a successful marketing communication. The high impact of the food industry on natural resources, in terms of water consumption and greenhouse gases emission, has been focusing the attention of consumers and producers towards environmentally sustainable products. This work presents a comprehensive approach for the joint evaluation of carbon (CF) and water (WF) footprint of the wine industry from a cradle to grave perspective. The LCA analysis is carried out following the requirements of international standards (ISO/TS 14067 and ISO 14046). A complete review of the water footprint methodology is presented and guidelines for all the phases of the evaluation procedure are provided, including acquisition and validation of input data, allocation, application of analytic models, and interpretation of the results. The strength of this approach is the implementation of a side-by-side CF vs. WF assessment, based on the same system boundaries, functional unit, and input data, that allows a reliable comparison between the two indicators. In particular, a revised methodology is presented for the evaluation of the grey water component. The methodology was applied to a white and a red wine produced in the same company. A comparison between the two products is presented for each LCA phase along with literature results for similar wines.

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Quantification of surface water and groundwater salinity sources in irrigated lowland area of North China Plain

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Seasonally variation of water salinity is observed worldwide, the mechanisms of water salinity are not well understood due to natural factors and anthropogenic activities. Quantification water salinity source are challenging since complex influence factors, especially in agricultural regions irrigated with multi-water sources. In the lowland area of North China Plain, transferred water, brackish shallow groundwater and fresh deep groundwater were combinative utilized to relieve prominent contradictions between regional water shortages and grain production. In this study, influence factors of surface water (canal water, pond water) and shallow groundwater salinity were identified and quantified through statistical analysis, deuterium excess, and ionic relationship. Salinity of canal water and pond water increased in dry season and decreased in rainy season, while salinity of shallow groundwater decreased in dry season after water transfer and rainy season, but increased in dry season. Evaporation and mineral dissolution were main factors for surface water salinity in dry season, with mineral dissolution was the more important one. The contribution ratio of evaporation and mineral dissolution for canal salinity were 4.4 and 49.1% in dry season after water transfer, 7.1 and 34.4% in dry season, and that for pond water salinity were 12.4 and 18.3% in dry season, respectively. Precipitation and surface runoff were main factors for surface water salinity in rainy season. The contribution of surface runoff for canal water and pond water salinity were 66.1 and 45.8%, respectively. Salinity of canal water and shallow groundwater was temporary decreased by water transfer. Domestic sewage from rural areas had larger influence than agricultural activities for salinity increase of pond water and shallow groundwater. Mineral dissolution was the main contributor for shallow groundwater salinity, with contribution ratio larger than 60% in different periods. This study demonstrated and quantified salinity source of surface water and shallow groundwater and may deepen our understanding of water management under multi-water resources utilization.

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A new approach to assessing the water footprint of wine: An Italian case study

Cited by 127 publications

References 16 publications

Review of Methodologies of Water Footprint.

Review of Methodologies of Water Footprint.

Water and Carbon Footprint of Wine: Methodology Review and Application to a Case Study

Quantification of surface water and groundwater salinity sources in irrigated lowland area of North China Plain

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