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RECORD NUMBER: 6 OF 9Main Title | The water footprint of modern consumer society / | |||||||||||
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Author | Hoekstra, Arjen Y., | |||||||||||
Publisher | Earthscan, from Routledge, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2013 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 709683048 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 9781849713030 (hbk); 1849713030 (hbk); 9781849714273 (pbk); 1849714274 (pbk) | |||||||||||
Subjects | Water consumption--Measurement ; Industrial water supply ; Water-supply--Accounting | |||||||||||
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Collation | xvi, 204 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages [184]-196) and index. |
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Contents Notes | Drinking ten bathtubs of water a day -- Water for bread and pasta -- The meat eater, a big water user -- How our cotton clothes link to a disappearing sea -- Burning water: the water footprint of biofuels -- The overseas water footprint of cut flowers -- The supply-chain water footprint of paper -- Maximum sustainable water footprint per river basin -- Water-use efficiency -- Allocating the world's limited freshwater resources -- Getting trade right -- Product transparency -- Who will be the heroes of change? |