Turkey's Water Footprint will be calculated

19 March 2013 CUmhuriyet
]]Natural Life Protection Foundation (WWF-Turkey) with the Cooperation of the General Directorate of Water Management of the Forest and Ministry of Water Affairs and the support of Unilever Turkey's Brands OMO will be a professional.

WWF President of the Turkish Board of Directors Uğur Bayar said that it is an important indicator of the Water Footprint in terms of detecting what water is accessible, providing effective use at every stage, and developing strategies for the macroscale rational management. [[

Mrar, which treasures Water Footprint as the amount of water spent and contaminated water at the unit time, is the total amount of fresh water used for the production of all goods and services arising in that country, for example, express that push appetite 130 liters of water to produce a shoe.

Mrar also records that this effect reveals the amount of ‘virtual water’, which means the amount of water that does not appear in the production of all goods and services that are subject to international trade, while using 18 percent of Swiss water needs in the country, creating 82 percent as virtual water. There are 82 percent imports. So Switzerland said 82 percent of goods that cause daily water consumption from outside.

Mrar pays attention to the amount of water falling per person in the last 20 years back to 4 thousand cubic meters from the person to 1.519, until 2030, the country’s population will go out to 100 million, and the water per person is forecasted to be 1.100, as WWF Turkey, they have difficulties that the country needs a quiet water management.
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Mrar, which emphasizes that water resources are unsubstituted, limited amount of social and economic resources, as follows:

] With the international trade that has speeded with the global economy, water resources are transported to the other end of the world. A hidden relationship between the use of water and the circulation of the water gives a new size to water management. In this sense, the management of water resources has only been a matter of public sector or civil society organisations, it has also been important for all people and business world. '

Bayar commands that of the Water Footprint is quite important for the development of solution proposal, the movement of individuals, errors in the water management of private companies and the creation of exchange in public policies.

WWF Turkey and the General Directorate of Water Management by the Ministry of Forest and Water Works, Mrar said that the first steps were lazy out in January 2012 to be included in the national scale decision-making mechanisms of the Water Footprint, "The components of the CONNECT public organizations Water Footprint, mod methods and capacity were carried out in this concept into the management of water resources. During the next period, the Ministry of Forest and Water Works will perform Water Footprint in the scale of rivers by prior to the issue of Water Footprint in Cooperation with WWF Turkey. This year we started the second stage with Unilever Turkey and its brands OMO, our project also used in Turkey's Water Footprint Report studies to be fundamental.

Bayar said that individuals in water have lot of things that they can do in their daily lives, but governments expressed that they are more important behind this topic. [

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