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Average water footprint of the country
=
m3/capita/yr
Part of footprint falling outside of the country =
%
Global average water footprint =
1243 m3/cap/yr.
Reference
The data come from: Hoekstra, A.Y. and Chapagain, A.K. (2008) Globalization of water: Sharing the planet's freshwater resources,
Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK. The data for the Netherlands have been taken from the following more recent study: Van Oel, P.R.,
Mekonnen M.M. and Hoekstra, A.Y. (2009) The external water footprint of the Netherlands: Geographically-explicit quantification
and impact assessment, Ecological Economics 69(1): 82-92.