Water footprint: An effective tool for the challenge of water sustainability

(Eng) Water is an indispensable liquid for subsisting as for the development of society. However, currently the availability of water refers to the world community, at the same time, to the physi cal and economic problems of the resource, reason why it is necessary that this resource has an efficien...

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Autores:
Vargas-Pineda, Oscar I.
Trujillo-González, Juan M.
Torres-Mora, Marco A.
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2020
Institución:
Universidad del Valle
Repositorio:
Repositorio Digital Univalle
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:bibliotecadigital.univalle.edu.co:10893/17825
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/10893/17825
Palabra clave:
Cuenca hidrográfica
Escasez hídrica
Gestión del agua
Huella hídrica
Basin
Water footprint
Water management
Water scarcity
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License
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb
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Summary:(Eng) Water is an indispensable liquid for subsisting as for the development of society. However, currently the availability of water refers to the world community, at the same time, to the physi cal and economic problems of the resource, reason why it is necessary that this resource has an efficient management of the way to satisfy the current needs, without compromising its use in the future. This article will present a conceptual analysis of the dynamics of the resource with the emphasis on scarcity, and the importance of integral management, around an indicator such as the water footprint, the view as an effective tool for decision making