Water having a low concentration of dissolved solids
A – F
Fossil groundwater
Groundwater body that has a negligible rate of natural recharge on the human time-scale
Evapotranspiration
Sum of evaporation and plant transpiration
Drainage basin/ basin
Area from which direct surface runoff from precipitation drains by gravity into a stream or other water body
Consumption-to-availability (CTA) ratio
Ratio of annual consumption to annual availability in a basin expressing relative freshwater scarcity
Characterization factor
Factor derived from a characterization model which is applied to convert an assigned life cycle inventory analysis result to the common unit of the category indicator
Borrowing water use
Withdrawal and discharge with low or no quality degradation (e.g. cooling water)
Blue water
Ground and surface water stocks
Availability
The annually renewable freshwater volumes within the basin which can be quantified by means of runoff (plus upstream inflows if the basin is divided into sub-catchments)
Carbon footprint
Potenzial eines Produkts, während seines Lebenszyklus zur Klimaveränderung und globalen Erwärmung durch Treibhausgasemissionen beizutragen