The water footprint of Austria for different diets

This paper analyses the Austrian water footprint of consumption (WF(cons)) for different diets: the current diet, a healthy diet (based upon the dietary recommendations issued by the German nutrition society, or DGE), a vegetarian diet and a combined diet between both latter diets. As in many wester...

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Published in:Water science and technology 2013-01, Vol.67 (4), p.824-830
Main Author: VANHAM, D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural Irrigation
Agricultural production
Agricultural products
Animal products
Applied sciences
Austria
Cereals
Commerce
Diet
Diet, Vegetarian
Eggs
Environmental impact
Exact sciences and technology
Fats
Food - statistics & numerical data
Meat
Milk
Milk products
Nutrition
Nutrition Policy
Oryza sativa
Pollution
Potatoes
Saccharides
Solanum tuberosum
Sugar
Vegetable oils
Vegetables
Vegetarian diet
Vegetarianism
Water
Water consumption
Water Supply
Water treatment and pollution
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Summary:This paper analyses the Austrian water footprint of consumption (WF(cons)) for different diets: the current diet, a healthy diet (based upon the dietary recommendations issued by the German nutrition society, or DGE), a vegetarian diet and a combined diet between both latter diets. As in many western countries, the current Austrian diet consists of too many products from the groups sugar, crop oils, meat, animal fats, milk, milk products and eggs and not enough products from the groups cereals, rice, potatoes, vegetables and fruit. Especially the consumption of animal products accounts for high WF amounts. These diets result in a substantial reduction (range 922-1,362 l per capita per day (lcd)) of the WF(cons) for agricultural products, which is currently 3,655 lcd. However, the Austrian water footprint of agricultural production (WF(prod) = 2,066 lcd) still remains lower than even the WF(cons) for a vegetarian diet (2,293 lcd). As a result the country is a net virtual water importer regarding agricultural products for all analysed scenarios.
ISSN:0273-1223
1996-9732
DOI:10.2166/wst.2012.623