The water footprint of modern consumer society

Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- The environmental footprint of the human species -- A brief history of water footprint thinking -- Why do we overexploit our limited freshwater resources? -- Drinking ten bathtubs of water a day -- Water for bread and pasta -- Meat and dairy, the biggest water users -- How our cotton clothes link to a disappearing sea -- The energy transition : how to combine carbon and water footprint reduction? -- The overseas water footprint of cut flowers -- The supply-chain water footprint of paper -- Sustainability: water footprint caps per water body -- Efficiency: water footprint benchmarks per product -- Equitability : fair water footprint shares per community -- Allocating the world's limited Freshwater resources -- Getting trade right -- Product transparency -- Who will be the heroes of change?