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http://dx.doi.org/10.3741/JKWRA.2013.46.4.401

Development of Water Footprint Inventory Using Input-Output Analysis  

Kim, Young Deuk (Rural Research Institute, Korea Rural Community Corporation)
Lee, Sang Hyun (Seoul National University)
Ono, Yuya (Faculty of Environmental and Information Studies, Tokyo City University)
Lee, Sung Hee (Rural Research Institute, Korea Rural Community Corporation)
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Journal of Korea Water Resources Association / v.46, no.4, 2013 , pp. 401-412 More about this Journal
Abstract
Water footprint of a product and service is the volume of freshwater used to produce the product, measured in the life cycle or over the full supply chain. Since water footprint assessment helps us to understand how human activities and products relate to water scarcity and pollution, it can contribute to seek a sustainable way of water use in the consumption perspective. For the introduction of WFP scheme, it is indispensable to construct water inventory/accounting for the assessment, but there is no database in Korea to cover all industry sectors. Therefore, the aim of the study is to develop water footprint inventory within a nation at 403 industrial sectors using Input-Output Analysis. Water uses in the agricultural sector account for 79% of total water, and industrial sector have higher indirect water at most sectors, which is accounting for 82%. Most of the crop water is consumptive and direct water except rice. The greatest water use in the agricultural sectors is in rice paddy followed by aquaculture and fruit production, but the greatest water use intensity was not in the rice. The greatest water use intensity was 103,263 $m^3$/million KRW for other inedible crop production, which was attributed to the low economic value of the product with great water consumption in the cultivation. The next was timber tract followed by iron ores, raw timber, aquaculture, water supply and miscellaneous cereals like corn and other edible crops in terms of total water use intensity. In holistic view, water management considering indirect water in the industrial sector, i.e. supply chain management in the whole life cycle, is important to increase water use efficiency, since more than 56% of total water was indirect water by humanity. It is expected that the water use intensity data can be used for a water inventory to estimate water footprint of a product for the introduction of water footprint scheme in Korea.
Keywords
water footprint; input-output analysis; water use intensity; inventory; direct water;
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