Water Footprint

Question 1

What is a water footprint?

Answer 1

The water footprint measures the amount of water used to produce each of the goods and services we use.

For example: making a pair of jeans or washing your car.

Question 2

How do we reduce our water footprint at home.

Answer 2

Have shorter showers

• Wash your car on the lawn
• Install water saving toilets, dishwashers, washing machines and shower heads
• Change diet to things that need less water to produce etc
• Native plants in garden
• Rain water tanks

Question 3

How can we reduce our water footprint at school?

Answer 3

• native plants
• less lawn
• low water using toilets
• use pool blanket.

Question 4

What are the 3 different water footprints? 👣

Answer 4

Green, blue and grey footprint. 👣

Question 5

What is a green water footprint?

Answer 5

Water from precipitation that is stored in the root zone of the soil and is evaporated, transpired or incorporated by plants.

Question 6

What is a grey water footprint?

Answer 6

The amount of fresh water required to assimilate pollutant to meet specific water quality standards.

Question 7

What is a blue water footprint?

Answer 7

Water that has been sourced from surface to groundwater resources and is either evaporated, incorporated into a plant or taken from one body of water and returned to another or returned at a different time.