Accounting for Every Drop: Day 3 at the World Water Forum

The path of "virtual water" related to coffee imports to the Netherlands. Image via the Water Footprint Network The concepts of a carbon footprint, and, more recently, a water footprint are meant to evoke the mark we leave on the planet with the products and services we create and consume--to remind us that, say, the beans in our morning cup of coffee took water to grow and created greenhouse gas emissions when they were transported to the store. But when done in detail, a water foo...