A – F

Water having a low concentration of dissolved solids

Groundwater body that has a negligible rate of natural recharge on the human time-scale

Sum of evaporation and plant transpiration

Area from which direct surface runoff from precipitation drains by gravity into a stream or other water body

Ratio of annual consumption to annual availability in a basin expressing relative freshwater scarcity

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

Withdrawal and discharge with low or no quality degradation (e.g. cooling water)

Ground and surface water stocks

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)

Potenzial eines Produkts, während seines Lebenszyklus zur Klimaveränderung und globalen Erwärmung durch Treibhausgasemissionen beizutragen