Virtual water transfers unlikely to redress inequality in global water use
The virtual water required to support
international trade is the volume of water used to produce, but
not necessarily contained within, a unit mass of agricultural
and industrial goods (Allan 1998, Chapagain and Hoekstra
2004). The concept of virtual water is analogous to the
concepts of embodied carbon and embodied energy (Lenzen
2009).
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