Virtual Water . . . un unknown 'mighty'

    ' In complex industrialised economies the role of water  may not be as visible  as in subsistence systems , where all inputs are locally accessed. In industrialised economies only a small part of water used is evident ... Even more important water, is less evident, unless there is a draught. Such water in soil is not even accounted in the national water budgets.  
   ' Water use by industry and services is misunderstood (..). How much people know  , how much, or how little, their firm, their office, their school uses per year ? '
   ' At the extreme of invisibility, the water embedded in imported commodities, such as food , has no profile at all . This last water, in practise, gives life to the individual and balances and stabilises water defcit economy.
   The political economy of virtal water is incalculable.

                                                                                                            Tony Allan

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