Virtual water is the new carbon footprint

[RedEarth]

Remember when calculating your carbon footprint was all the rage? Ah, those were the days ... but the carbon crisis is so yesterday's news. The Next Big Thing is the water crisis, and as such, I present a little website called Waterfootprint.org...

http://www.waterfootprint.org/?page=files/home

Use it to calculate your individual water footprint -- or see how much H2O the stuff you're consuming (from apples to cotton tees to red wine) is sucking up.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/4/21/10140/8723

[iiibbb]

1. The problem is that unlike carbon, water is actually in a cycle

The 140 liters of water that makes a cup of coffee doesn't just disappear. It is transpired into the atmosphere and falls as rain again and again.

So the impact is very location dependent.