What are the water consumption during the production of different types wood species like popler, eucalyptus, oak and pine etc in different bio-geographical regions like tropical, subtropical and temperate. I just want to know what are the consumption of water in cubic meter for producing the one cubic meter of wood of above mentioned species in different places ?
Hi Sir Interesting question, but i only know that 1m3 of wood requires around 2900 gallons of water. Hope anyone will answer more good one.
Hi Anil,
You can refer to the Table 6 in the following paper (available in the link below) for the Water footprint of harvested wood from different trees and different places of origin. Here is a short summary of the values from the Table 6 of this paper:
Pine (Temperate and Boreal biomes) = 335 – 1000 m3 water/m3 wood
Broad-leaves (e.g. Oak and Poplar) (Temperate biome) = 262 – 797 m3 water/m3 wood
Eucalyptus (Tropical and Sub-Tropical biomes) = 222 – 1105 m3 water/m3 wood
http://waterfootprint.org/media/downloads/VanOel-Hoekstra-2012-WaterFootprintPaper_1.pdf
I profuse a huge thanks to all answers especially Sundera, Bath and Villa for being very informative and accurate. I want to share one think to all of you that one A4 sheet requires 10 litres of water. Thank again.