A new virtual reality

Christopher Gasson questions the usefulness of the virtual water concept.

This year’s Stockholm Water Prize went to Tony Allan, the British professor who developed the theory of “virtual water”. It is a concept which is rapidly gaining momentum as the way in which consumers are to be engaged in the crisis of water scarcity.

Allan developed the idea that everything has virtual water embedded in it. For example, the ...

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