LCANZ Autumn Webinars: Water - Footprinting of Kiwifruit, Wine and Dates

Autumn Webinar Series
We are excited to be organising an Autumn webinar series. We have a great line up of speakers followed by question and answer sessions.
Keep your Wednesdays at 1pm free through April and May!

Water
This event is for our second Water webinar on 11th May:
The Water Footprinting of Kiwifruit, Wine and Dates with Brent Clothier.

Brent Clothier is a Principal Scientist with Plant & Food Research. He is based in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Brent is President of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Brent has a BSc (Hons) from Canterbury University, and a PhD and DSc from Massey University. Brent is a Fellow of Royal Society Te Apārangi. He is also a Fellow of four foreign science academies: the Soil Science Society of America; American Agronomy Society; American Geophysical Union, and he is an Academician (Foreign) of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Brent has been, or is still involved in water-related aid and development projects in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as in the Middle East, China, and Africa.

The water footprint (WF) concept, based on the embedded virtual-water notion of Allan (1993), was first introduced by Hoekstra (2003). Hoekstra (2003) quantified this WF as being the amount of water that is needed to produce different goods, and various services.  A WF comprises three components: the blue WF (WFblue), green WF (WFgreen), and grey WF (WFgrey). The WFblue is the volume of water extracted from water resources such as rivers, lakes, and groundwater to produce a product or service. The WFgreen refers to consumption of rain water that had been stored in the soil. The WFgrey is a measure of volume of water ‘polluted’ by leaching solutes as a result of the production of goods and provision of services.

The WF concept is illustrative of the impact that primary production can have on the quantity and quality of our water resources.  However care needs to be exercised, and all the components of the hydrological cycle must be equitably quantified to assess impacts.

Check out our website for details of more webinars in the series: 

https://lcanz.org.nz/events/

Opportunity to win a year’s LCANZ membership! 

We’ll be running a competition through the webinar series. Student and Individual members could win their next year’s membership, while corporate members could win a free SME membership to gift to a supplier for FY23. 

To be in with a chance to win, you’ll need to register and attend all of the sessions and answer a short quiz about what you’ve heard. Good luck!