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Kauwen op Water | i.s.m. <b> OneWorld Live </b>

Chewing on Water

Talkshow | Marijn Frank & Gerbrand Haverkamp | 90 min | Dutch spoken
Voorstelling: Friday 22 March 20:00 | Rabozaal (SK/3)

On 22 March, World Water Day, the Food Film Festival and One World Live will host a talk show on the role of water in food production. The production of one cup of coffee, for example, requires 140 litres of water; a kilo of beef, 15,000 litres. But what exactly is a water footprint?

What do these numbers really tell us? And how significant is this water consumption? Time for some clarification.

Presenters Gerbrand Haverkamp (Ministry of Economic Affairs) and Marijn Frank will talk to guests including Arjen Hoekstra, Professor in Water Management at the University of Twente. Hoekstra is known around the world for his standard for measuring water consumption per finished product. During the talk show he will also present his new book The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society.

Water grabbing and the impact of water removal from vulnerable areas in southern countries will also be addressed. And of course we will discuss practical solutions: The viability of drip irrigation for example. Or, the smart use of salt water: Marc van Rijsselberghe will tell us about his 'zilte landbouw'-boerderij. And with the Voedingscentrum (Nutrition Centre), we look at what consumers can do to reduce their water footprint.

Kauwen op Water- opnamedatum vrijdag 22 maart om 20:00

Talkshow over de vaak onderschatte rol van water in ons dagelijks voedsel:

Dag01 FFF2013 Water-FFF2 from Food Film Festival on Vimeo.

Speakers:

	Arjen Hoekstra (Universiteit van Twente) Arjen Hoekstra is professor watermanagement at Universiteit Twente. Hoekstra is well-known because of the standard he has developed to measure the use of water per product. @AYHoekstra
	Gert Jan Veldwisch (Wageningen UR) Gert Jan Veldwisch is the expert on 'water grabbing' at Wageningen UR. What impact has grabbing water on vulnerable areas in the southern countries?
	Marc van Rijsselberghe (Zilte teelt boer) Marc van Rijsselberghe is a saline cultivation farmer on Texel. With his own eyes, he sees which fantastical possibilities are available to make use of salt water for producing food. Time to scale this technique up!
	Willem Treep (Willem&Drees) Willem Treep is co-founder of Willem&Drees, a company which tries to stimulate the link between farmers and local stores. Local food is not only sensible from the 'CO2-perspective', but the footprint of Dutch products is also relatively low. @WillemenDrees
	Özlem Özcan (We Like Water) Özlem Özcan is one of the figures behind We Like Water: a company which tries to limit the use of plastic bottles by seving tapwater in bottles with a beautiful design.
	Corné van Dooren (Voedingscentrum) Corné van Dooren is works at Voedingscentrum. As a specialist on the topic of sustainable food, he has developed an online tool which makes it possible to calculate your own foodprint. @DuurzaamEten
	Frank van Steenbergen (MetaMeta) Frank van Steenbergen is director at MetaMeta. He has gained international experience by solving problems regarding water scarceness.
	Henk Holtslag (Connect International) Henk Holtslag has been working at smart technological solutions about the use of water, and he will tell us about the usefulness of drop irrigation and the ropepump.

Co-hosted by www.oneworld.nl

Foto credits: Het mooie project www.disputedwaters.com

Chewing on Water

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