Quantifying Virtual Water Flows in the 12 Continental Countries of SADC

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Abstract

The Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility (CRIDF) has developed a data platform for Virtual Water transfers amongst the 12 continental countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and with the rest of the world, embedded in agricultural products and in electricity supplies. This, together with a Global Social and Development Index database, has formed the basis for many of the analyses in other Chapters of this book. This Chapter provides a summary of the processes and source data used in developing develop the databases, as well as some examples of the potential use of the data platform. The final section provides a brief summary of the techniques involved in economic accounting of water, and the current position of the continental SADC countries in that regard. Notably, economic accounting of water relates to blue water in isolation, but the technique nevertheless provides useful complementary information to that obtained through considerations of the rest of the water footprint and the economy behind Virtual Water transfers.

Keywords

Water Footprint Virtual Water Blue Water Evaporative Loss Grey Water 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Adam Smith InternationalLondonUK

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