Water footprints as an indicator for the equitable utilization of shared water resources

Sallam, Osama M.

doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2014.08.007

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“…Considering that quantifying the water consumed in quantity (blue WF and green WF) and quality (gray WF), of the strategic ecosystems in a given place and time, allows to generate important information to improve decision making in the water conservation and distribution that guarantees its sustainability (55,56) . However, Li (52) ensures that the participation of multiple jurisdictions in the basins makes it difficult to organize these natural units, as evidenced in a study conducted in the Guadiana basin that is part of Portugal and Spain (57) or in the Nile river basin that is between Egypt and Ethiopia (58) , where the distribution of the resource is hampered due to the water planning policies of each country and differences in water availability in the upper and lower basins.…”

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Huella hídrica: Una herramienta eficaz para el desafío de la sostenibilidad del agua

Vargas-Pineda

Trujillo‐González

Torres-Mora

2020

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El agua es un líquido indispensable tanto para subsistir como para el desarrollo de la sociedad. No obstante, actualmente la disponibilidad de agua preocupa a la comunidad mundial por la intensa aparición de escenarios de escasez física y económica del recurso. Razón por la cual, es necesario que este recurso tenga una gestión eficiente, de tal manera que satisfaga las necesidades actuales, sin comprometer su uso en el futuro. Este artículo, presentará un análisis conceptual de la dinámica del recurso con énfasis en la escasez, y la importancia de la gestión integral, alrededor de un indicador como la huella hídrica, vista como una herramienta eficaz para la toma de decisiones.

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Section: Water Footprint and Its Relationship With Environmentmentioning

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Huella hídrica: Una herramienta eficaz para el desafío de la sostenibilidad del agua

Vargas-Pineda

Trujillo‐González

Torres-Mora

2020

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“…Pellicer-Martínez and Martínez-Paz [30] used a water footprint indicator to assess the environmental sustainability of water resources management at the river basin level. Sallam [31] focused on water resource conflicts between Egypt and Ethiopia in the Nile River Basin and chose a water footprint indicator to study the fair use of shared water resources. However, while the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) method, without an unexplained residual term, has been extensively used to research energy consumption [5,12,24,[32][33][34][35][36] and carbon emissions [5,12,[37][38][39][40][41][42], it has been used less in water resource research.…”

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Toward the Coordinated Sustainable Development of Urban Water Resource Use and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis of Tianjin City, China

Wang

2018

Sustainability

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The coordinated sustainable development of urban water resources and economic growth requires a better understanding of the relationship between industrial water use and economic growth. This study analyzed the relationship between urban industrial water use and economic development in Tianjin City in China (one of the four municipalities directly under the Central Government) from 2005 to 2015. The research combined the logarithmic mean Divisia index model with the Tapio model to develop a new decoupled model analyzing the relationship between urban industrial water use and economic development. The results show that: (1) Tianjin's industrial water use and economic growth show a clear decoupling; (2) the economic scale effect drives Tianjin's total industrial water use and economic growth towards weaker decoupling, stabilizing in a weakly decoupled state; and (3) the industrial structure effect and industrial water intensity effect drive the decoupling of industrial water use and economic growth in Tianjin. Finally, the paper provides policy recommendations to promote the decoupling of industrial water use and economic growth.

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Internal (blue) water footprint of municipal consumption: a case study for Turkey

Boyacıoğlu

2018

Environ Monit Assess

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This study aimed to develop a common approach to investigate (blue) water footprint of consumption of municipalities. Analysis framework consists of two distinct phases as: water abstraction profile and water distribution and water use profile. In the proposed approach municipal water footprint (WF) comprises three components: domestic water footprint (WF), industrial/commercial water footprint (WF), and public water footprint (WF). The application of the methodology was demonstrated in Turkey. The overall objective was to identify water consumption profile regarding model components and assess spatial and temporal distributions in the country scale. In this scope, each component was determined for 81 cities. After the investigation of spatial differences, an answer to the question of, "whether water use is increasing or decreasing over time" was found. Results investigated that WF was 140 L/ca.day in average and reached up to 300 L/ca.day in some cities. WF was about 100 L/ca.day and cities having lower values mostly located on north-west, south-east of the country. Furthermore, few spots with high values were observed for WF (with 10 L/ca.day average), and relatively lower values belonged to the cities in south-eastern region. WF having 30 L/ca.day mean value had extremes in eastern part. Based on water consumption characteristics, cities were grouped using factor analysis and results created four groups of cities. Although eastern and western cities had no trends in water abstraction rate, other regions had decreasing trend in last 20 years. Investigation of (blue) water footprint of consumption of municipalities is believed to assist water managers to identify water use profiles and assess spatial and temporal distributions. This is important because water resources are becoming increasingly stretched to accommodate continued population and economic growth and to restore environmental flows.

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Water footprints as an indicator for the equitable utilization of shared water resources

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

Huella hídrica: Una herramienta eficaz para el desafío de la sostenibilidad del agua

Huella hídrica: Una herramienta eficaz para el desafío de la sostenibilidad del agua

Toward the Coordinated Sustainable Development of Urban Water Resource Use and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis of Tianjin City, China

Internal (blue) water footprint of municipal consumption: a case study for Turkey

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