With a Multi-Regional Input-Output model,this study quantifies global final energy demands’grey water footprint(GWF)based on the latest available data.In 2009,9.10 km^3 of freshwater was required to dilute the pollut...
Acknowledgements This work was supported by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (No. NCET-12-0059), National Science Foundation for Innovative Research Group (No. 51121003), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41171068, 40701004 and 41271543), Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (No. IRT0809), Special Fund of State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control of China (No. 12YO4ESPCN and 10ZO2ESPCN), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
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