Water Footprint Reduction in Engineering, Laboratory, and Administrative Buildings

Abstract

The water footprint is a tool that indicates the direct and indirect consumption of fresh water, whether in a production process, product, service, building, institution, geopolitical area, economic sector, or a person. In the headquarter of the oil and gas (O&G) corporations, also called exploration and production (E & P) companies, typically there are administration, engineering, and laboratory activities related to the business bottom line a close analogy to these types of buildings are educational buildings, such as universities. Therefore, the outcome of the presented work could be applied to the O&G buildings as well. The objective of this research was to calculate the water footprint of the Villa Campus of the Scientific University of the South for its activities in 2019, using the methodology of the Water Footprint Network, which is considered a world standard for the evaluation of the water footprint and based mostly on the work of Professor Dr. Arjen Hoekstra, who introduced the concept of the water footprint in 2002.