@article{Neubauer:138133,
      recid = {138133},
      author = {Neubauer, Eva},
      title = {WATER FOOTPRINT IN HUNGARY},
      journal = {APSTRACT: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce},
      address = {2012-11-01},
      number = {1033-2016-84096},
      series = {6},
      pages = {10},
      month = {Nov},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {More and more news report on water-related extreme  environmental phenomena. Some of these are natural, which  are often
beyond the human race. But others are definitely  due to anthropogenic effects. I think the water footprint  index is able to highlight national
and international  water-use processes and gives us the opportunity of  organizing a sustainable, consumer-, environmental- and  governancefriendly
management.
81% of the fresh water  withdrawal is from surface water bodies in the EU. In  Europe as a whole, 44% of abstraction is used for  energy
production, 24% for agriculture, 21% for public  water supply and 11% for industry. Public water supply is  confined to ground waters. To the
water resources related  human activity caused qualitative and quantitative  amortisation will grow worse in the foreseeable future due  to the
climate change. Beside seasonal differences the  sectoral differences are increasingly becoming critical  between different areas, such as
Southern and Western  Europe. The former, wrong agricultural support system has  worsened the situation since it gave financial aid for  the
used improper techniques of water-intensive crop  cultivation. By today, this seems to be solved. Public  water abstraction is affected by many
factors, of which  mostly are based on social situation and habits, but  technological leakage receives a big role as well.  Interesting, that for
example the residents’water  consumption in Eastern Europe decreased because price were  raised and regular measurements were introduced.
But in  Southern Europe it increased due to tourism in the past  period. Industrial water withdrawal decreased across Europe  because of the
decline of industry and the development of  technologies. According to the European Environment Agency  (EEA), the Union needs a
sustainable, demand-driven  leadership which focuses on the preservation and use  efficiency. This have already appeared in politics and  legal
administration as well.
Current research calls the  attention to the significance and difficulties of this kind  of domestic estimation presented trough the water  footprint
calculation of bread and pork in Hungary. The  received data indicate the domestic water consumption  trends in a modern approach. There is
no doubt for me about  the urgent necessity of water footprint calculation because  as a result innovative, sustainability  supported
environmental, social, economical, and political  relationships can be created – not just on local, regional  or national level, but on interregional,
European and even  global stage.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/138133},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.138133},
}