Everything we consume requires water at almost every stage in its production. Europeans are using much more water indirectly through the consumption of products, often imported from outside Europe, than directly in their households.
Europe's overconsumption of resources contributes to increasing water scarcity in many regions of the world. Friends of the Earth Europe calls on Europe to measure all the water it consumes directly and indirectly, in order to reduce its unsustainable and unfair levels of water use.