What colour is your water?

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The seminar “What colour is your water” was organised by ICID.UK and the UEA Water Security Research Centre.  It critically reviews the colours concept applied to water resources managements; for example blue water for surface freshwater; green water for rainfed agricultural evapotranspiration; grey water, brown water and so on.
 

Welcome by Bruce Lankford, ICID.UK & UEA Water Security Research Centre
Jennie Baron (SEI/University of York). Coloured water: pragmatic models and complex realities of communicating water functions in landscapes.
Todd Jarvis (Oregon State University – by video):  Social Media and the Colours of Water: The Rainbow Water Coalition
Bruce Lankford (UEA/ICID) Hesitate to irrigate – vector blue water for agricultural green water
Francesca Greco/ Marta Antonelli (KCL) Accounting for virtual water in food products
Charles Batchelor (ICID member) Does use of the blue-green-grey water concept improve or dumb-down water management?

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