After last years success, here is the 2009 FAO Water calendar. Download your desktop calendar with beautiful water images. . Simply select your screen size to open the calendar image in a new window then right click on the image and select 'Set as Desktop Item' form the menu that appears.

Check the FAO Water website each month for a differrent desktop calendar!

Click on the images above to download the PDF version of these popular posters (Extended Virtual Water poster also available below)

To produce food, water is consumed by the plants in the field through evaporation and transpiration. The amount of water needed varies with crops and depends from place to place, on local productivity and conditions of available water supply through rainfall or irrigation. Once the product is harvested and becomes available on the market, the water embedded in the product changes status from ‘real’ water to ‘virtual’ water. In this poster you can see how much water is "embedded" in each product and discover how much water is needed to produce it.