While importing supplies may ease pressure on local water resources in some countries in MENA, it can also lead to a decline in self-sufficiency and increase reliance on exports. Arab countries ...

The flow of water used to produce goods that are then exported around the world is called virtual water trading. 1 Graham, Neal T. et al. “Future changes in the trading of virtual water.” Nature ...

Experts studying the global food trade rarely consider how the trade of food encompasses a virtual trade of the water required to produce the food. In a recent study, a team that included University ...

27 August 2025: International agricultural trade plays a central role in balancing global food supply and demand. Yet, with every shipment of crops crossing borders, the water used to produce them is ...

Virtual water is the water that is used to produce goods and services. And the virtual water trade is the hidden flow of water in food and other commodities which is traded from one place to another.

Image — A farm worker adjusts sprinkler heads spraying water on fields near El Centro, California, 18 October 2002. Photo credit: Copyright © David McNew/Getty ...

Picture a glass of water. Now imagine it contains not just water but the story of how it travelled through soil, nourished crops, and eventually left India’s shores — not as water but hidden inside a ...

Richmond Hill, Ontario – 27 August 2025: International agricultural trade plays a central role in balancing global food supply and demand. Yet, with every shipment of crops crossing borders, the water ...