Water has traditionally been considered a physically scarce resource in Northwestern China, and most investigations of … source of indirect water consumption. By drawing on the water consumption in Zhangye, a city situated in Northwestern China …

concept and calculating method of water footprint, this paper estimates the water footprint of China in 2007. The result shows … that the total water footprint of China is 856.34 × 10<Superscript>9</Superscript> m<Superscript>3</Superscript> and the … footprint is obvious among all provinces of China. Generally, the more developed cities, the southern and coastal provinces have …