define virtual water
Virtual water is the water used to create the goods and services that we consume and use. The embodied water concept is illustrated in the diagram with a bowl of pasta, which may hypothetically contain 200 litres of virtual water, although only two litres of boiling water is used to produce it at home. Thinking about virtual water can make us look at our water management systems in completely different ways. A detailed analysis of Victoriaâs virtual water cycle shows that: Victorians harvest around 25 per cent of the stateâs total historic average stream flows;