Open AccessAssessment of Blue and Green Virtual Water Trade: A Case Study of India
Author(s) -
Shiv Narayan Nishad,
Naresh Kumar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
european of agriculture and food sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2684-1827
DOI - 10.24018/ejfood.2021.3.6.336
Subject(s) - virtual water , sustainability , water security , agriculture , business , water resources , food security , water use , natural resource economics , international trade and water , climate change , water conservation , environmental economics , water scarcity , economics , trade barrier , international trade , ecology , international free trade agreement , biology
Declining water resources and increasing demand of water for agricultural, industrial, and domestic sector and potential climate change has posed a major challenge to maintain water sustainability of a nation. There is a need to adopt long-term perspective for assessment and policy design for sustainability of primary resources like water. It is also argued that virtual water trade has raised issues of water sustainability as even small but continuous net virtual water trade may influence the water sustainability through irreversible losses. With the constraints for water sustainability, virtual water trade has received much attention in the recent years. While the impact of virtual water trade on water sustainability of virtual water exporter country is less explored and assessed. India is a major water exporting country resulted tremendous pressure on water resources that has serious threat to food security and the negative impact on development of economy and other sectors.