Hi all,This is indeed an ...

Hi all, This is indeed an important insight that is slowly being understood by people and key stakeholders in the private and public sector. The water we used in our houses is almost negligible in most situations compared to the amount of water needed to grow our food, produce the materials we consume and produce the energy (electricity included). The Water Footprint Network has done extensive studies on this particular subject, showing that not only peoples have an "indirect" water consumption but countries too, relying on water resources from other countries: www.waterfootprint.org In regards to electricity in particular, a publication provide the "water footprint" of electricity production worldwide at country level: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11367-011-0284-8 . Many publications exists on the subject, this one being a good start. When assessing the water footprint of products, even agriculture based products can have a significant water footprint coming from energy (like milk powder produced in Colombia, see presentation done by myself recently, slide 9 and 10: http://www.sdc-water.ch/en/Home/News/News_Detail?itemID=10337 ). Wish you all the best for 2013 !