The volume of freshwater used and then evaporated or incorporated into a product. It also includes water abstracted from surface or groundwater in a catchment and returned to another catchment or the [..]

Blue water Blue water availability Blue water footprint Blue water footprint impact index Blue water scarcity Business water footprint Corporate water footprint Critical load Crop water requir [..]

Fresh surface and groundwater, in other words, the water in freshwater lakes, rivers and aquifers.

Natural run-off (through groundwater and rivers) minus environmental flow requirements. Blue water availability typically varies within the year and also from year to year.

Volume of surface and groundwater consumed as a result of the production of a good or service. Consumption refers to the volume of freshwater used and then evaporated or incorporated into a product. I [..]

An aggregated and weighed measure of the environmental impact of a blue water footprint at catchment level. It is based on two inputs: (i) the blue water footprint of a product, consumer or producer s [..]

The ratio of blue water footprint to blue water availability. Blue water scarcity varies within the year and from year to year.

See ‘water footprint of a business’.

See ‘water footprint of a business’.

The load of pollutants that will fully consume the assimilation capacity of the receiving water body.