Consistent characterisation factors at midpoint and endpoint relevant to agricultural water scarcity arising from freshwater consumption

Masaharu Motoshita1, Yuya Ono2, Stephan Pfister3, Anne‐Marie Boulay4, Markus Berger5, Keisuke Nansai6, Kiyotaka Tahara1, Norihiro Itsubo2, Atsushi Inaba7
1National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8569, Japan
2Faculty of Environmental and Information Studies, Tokyo City University, Yokohama, 224-8551, Japan
3Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
4CIRAIG - École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3A7, Canada
5Department of Environmental Technology, Technical University of Berlin, 10623, Berlin, Germany
6Research Center for Material Cycles and Waste Management, National Institute of Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, 305-8506, Japan
7Department of Engineering, Kogakuin University, Tokyo, 163-8677, Japan

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