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Virtual Water Trade Network (2D Map)

Interactive 2D top-down water-footprint simulator: watch the blue, green and grey water embedded in traded farm goods (beef, cotton, coffee, rice) flow between six world regions on a pannable, zoomable map, and see how export volume drives up a water-stressed region's Blue Water Scarcity Index.

Climate, Ecology & Environment2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Every tonne of beef, cotton, coffee or rice that crosses a border also carries an invisible cargo: the water used to grow and process it. This 2D companion to the 3D globe view lays the same six world regions out on a flat, pannable and zoomable network map and animates that "virtual water" as blue (irrigation), green (rainfall) and grey (pollution-dilution) droplets arcing from your chosen exporter to its trading partners. Pick a commodity and export volume and watch the live readouts — total water exported, the grey-water pollution share, and the exporting region's Blue Water Scarcity Index — respond in real time, showing why water-stressed regions exporting thirsty crops is a real sustainability concern, not an abstraction.

⚙ Under the hood

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install