This book highlights the concept of water footprint in different industrial sectors such as leather tanning, steel, agriculture, textile and wine. One of the very basic necessities of life which is soon going to be scarce is water, hence the environmental footprint assessments on any scale essentially includes water footprint which is being measured in various supply chains and across different product categories. According to ISO 14046, the water footprint assessment refers to the total freshwater volume consumed and polluted directly or indirectly across a product’s end-to-end supply chain. This book presents, for industry purposes, the focus on identification and quantification of water trade, the scarcity, and pollution involved in the production of goods and services.

Leather tanning
Input-output model
Fossil energy
Water trade
Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS)
Supply chain
Industrial agriculture
Winery sector

• Front Matter
• Verifiable Water Use Inventory Using ICTs in Industrial Agriculture
• Industrial Water Footprint: Case Study on Textile Industries
• A Model for the Assessment of the Water Footprint of Gardens that Include Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS)
• From Field to Bottle: Water Footprint Estimation in the Winery Industry
• Water Footprint in Leather Tanning and Steel Production
• Employing Input-Output Model to Assess the Water Footprint of Energy System

Head of Sustainability, SgT Group and API, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

Book Title
Water Footprint

Book Subtitle
Assessment and Case Studies

Editors
Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

Series Title
Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4377-1

Hardcover ISBN
978-981-33-4376-4
Published: 13 January 2021

Softcover ISBN
978-981-33-4379-5
Published: 13 January 2022

eBook ISBN
978-981-33-4377-1
Published: 12 January 2021

Series ISSN
2345-7651

Series E-ISSN
2345-766X

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
IX, 185

Number of Illustrations
12 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour

Topics
Environmental Management, Water, general, Green Chemistry, Environmental and Sustainability Education