Water footprinting in life cycle assessment: how to count the drops and assess the impacts?

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Characterization Factors for Water Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Based on Freshwater Fish Species Extinction

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Methodological Challenges in Volumetric and Impact‐Oriented Water Footprints

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The environmental relevance of freshwater consumption in global power production

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Consensus building on the development of a stress-based indicator for LCA-based impact assessment of water consumption: outcome of the expert workshops

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Categorizing water for LCA inventory

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Analysis of water use impact assessment methods (part A): evaluation of modeling choices based on a quantitative comparison of scarcity and human health indicators

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Development of impact factors on damage to health by infectious diseases caused by domestic water scarcity

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Consistent characterisation factors at midpoint and endpoint relevant to agricultural water scarcity arising from freshwater consumption

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Implementing Groundwater Extraction in Life Cycle Impact Assessment: Characterization Factors Based on Plant Species Richness for the Netherlands

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Environmental relevance—the key to understanding water footprints

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Quantifying Area Changes of Internationally Important Wetlands Due to Water Consumption in LCA

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Biodiversity Impacts from Salinity Increase in a Coastal Wetland

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Modeling the Local Biodiversity Impacts of Agricultural Water Use: Case Study of a Wetland in the Coastal Arid Area of Peru

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Saving the Planet’s Climate or Water Resources? The Trade-Off between Carbon and Water Footprints of European Biofuels

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A life cycle impact assessment procedure with resource groups as areas of protection

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Reply to Ridoutt and Huang: From water footprint assessment to policy

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Does South‐to‐North Water Transfer Reduce the Environmental Impact of Water Consumption in China?

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