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 Stories About: water crisis AND websites AND ecological footprint AND green living
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Virtual water is the new carbon footprint
Calculate how much water your lifestyle requires |
Sarah van Schagen |
21 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| 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.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. |
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| Topics: water crisis, websites, ecological footprint, green living (all these topics) |
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