Trends and environmental impacts of virtual water trade

MM Mekonnen, MM Kebede, BW Demeke… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Virtual water describes water embedded in the production of goods and offers meaningful
insights about the complex interplay between water, trade and sustainability. In this Review …

Water throughout the green energy transition: Hydrosocial dimensions of coal, natural gas, and lithium

JJ Cousins, A Cantor, B Turley - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Energy transitions are resha** hydrosocial relations. How they will be reshaped, however,
depends on location and water's material relationship to other resources and industrial …

Tracking water pressure on water-energy-food system in global trade

S Cui, S Wang - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2024 - Elsevier
Water resources are a critical component of the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus, making it
vital to examine the pressures on WEF systems from a water resource perspective. However …

A comprehensive assessment indicator of the water-energy-food nexus system based on the material consumption relationship

L Hao, J Yu, P Wang, C Han, B Gojenko, B Qu… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The input–output relationships among material, energy, and information within the water,
energy, and food subsystems are intricately interwoven, constituting an integrated system …

The traded water footprint of global energy from 2010 to 2018

CM Chini, RAM Peer - Scientific Data, 2021 - nature.com
The energy-water nexus describes the requirement of water-for-energy and energy-for-
water. The consumption of water in the production and generation of energy resources is …

[HTML][HTML] Is virtual water trade beneficial for the water-deficient regions? New evidences from the Yellow River Basin, China

G Liu, F Zhang, X Deng - Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Study region The Yellow River Basin (a water-deficient region) in China. Study
focus To establish whether the virtual water trade (VWT) is beneficial for water-deficient …

A critical review on the accounting of energy in virtual water trade

CM Chini, J Nugent, AS Stillwell, RAM Peer - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Virtual water trade analysis investigates the embedded volume of water associated with the
movement of a good from production to consumption. Energy-derived virtual water trade …

A multi-perspective input-output model for the energy-water nexus in Kazakhstan

JT Liu, YP Li, GH Huang, SG Wang, PP Wang - Sustainable Production …, 2024 - Elsevier
Both energy and water resources are the important foundation for sustainable development
of society and economy; they influence and interact with each other, and their interaction is …

Historical values of water and carbon intensity of global electricity production

RAM Peer, CM Chini - Environmental Research: Infrastructure …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The global production of electricity is reliant upon the availability of water resources for the
cooling of thermoelectric power plants and in the production of hydroelectricity. Additionally …

Future evolution of virtual water trading in the United States electricity sector

NT Graham, G Iyer, M Wise, M Hejazi… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Future transformations in the electricity sector could entail major shifts in power sector
technology mixes and electricity trade, with consequences for the trading of virtual water …