Question

What is a water footprint? You can show it on a graph or table. What food-consumption patterns or direct water-use habits explain your water footprint? Note: Your income is used to estimate your water footprint from the use of industrial goods. This is not a very exact estimate. Choose a couple of water-intensive foods that you consume and indicate in which countries or regions they are produced. Are these countries or regions water-stressed? Do you think your diet is relevant to water availability in those places? Explain.

Answer 1

The water footprint is the amount of water consumption by the people and their relationship with the available water sources. It is about the capacity of the water sources and its usages.

Yes, we can show it on a graph or table by the representation of the availability of water and its usages by the people of a region.

The amount of water we are using directly or directly in a day shows our water footprint, some of the ways are as follows by which water footprint can be explained:

• The consumption of water while cooking, bathing, washing houses, and others
• The amount of freshwater we are using in drinking throughout a day
• Most importantly, directly or indirectly we are wasting water in daily activities and many more.

Yes, we can say that the income of an individual determines its usages of water and it is a critical factor by which we can easily determine the water footprint.

Some of the water-intensive foods are as follows:

• Almond

It is produced in the state of California which takes a huge amount of water and as we know that California is a water-deficit state.

• Wheat

It is produced in Asian countries like India which also take huge sum of water and India is also facing water crisis.

• Watermelon

It is mostly produced in the sand and desert regions and this is also a region of huge water deficit.

• Rice and many more

Rice requires water all-time in the land and takes huge water throughout its production and it is mostly produced in Asian countries like Japan, Indonesia, India and some of the countries are suffering from water scarcity.

In some parts, it is not relevant which is facing water scarcity and having water-intensive foods like Almond, rice and all. It is necessary to look into water availability and the food crops of that region and then we will reach to the sustainable state of water usage.