Sustainable Footprint

Calculate your own waterfootprint

WATER FOOTPRINT

Your individual “water footprint” depends on what you consume: your food consumption, consumption of goods and services and your domestic water use. Recently, three simple “water footprint calculators” have become online available!

www.waterfootprint.org/WaterFootprintCalculator.htm

The extended calculator enables you to calculate your own water footprint on the basis of relatively detailed data on your consumption pattern.
A quick calculator enables a rapid assessment of your own water footprint.
A third simple calculator enables you to get the average water footprint in a certain country.

The tools are based on in-depth research, but are primarily meant as instructive tools, to give people insight in the relation between consumption and water requirements. The tools have been developed by the UNESCO-IHE Institute of Water Education, in collaboration with the University of Twente, the Netherlands.

Ashok Chapagain – UNESCO-IHE
Mesfin Mekonnen – UNESCO-IHE
Huub Savenije – UNESCO-IHE
Arjen Hoekstra – University of Twente

For further information please contact:
Prof. A.Y. Hoekstra / University of Twente
Phone +31 53 489 3880
E-mail waterfootprint@unesco-ihe.org
Website: www.waterfootprint.org

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