Water Footprint Network
Water footprint of crops, products and nations
The reference dataset of green, blue and grey water footprints for crops, derived crop products, livestock products and industrial goods, together with national water footprint accounts.
Rights
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial reuse
- Not clearly stated
- Redistribution
- Yes
- Derivative use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- YesData from Water Footprint Network, used under CC BY 4.0.
- Terms last checked
- 23 August 2026
Access and coverage
- Publisher
- Water Footprint Network
- Geographic coverage
- Global — national and sub-national crop footprints
- Temporal coverage
- 1996–2005
- Update frequency
- static
- Formats
- xlsx, csv, pdf
- Bulk download
- Available
- Registration required
- No
- Cost to Hydrionis
- Free
- Domains
- footprint, sector use
Notes
The widely quoted product water footprints derive from a 1996–2005 reference period and are global or national averages. They vary by an order of magnitude between production regions, so a single number for "the water footprint of beef" is a global average and not a property of any particular product (spec §40).