Water footprint calculator API

Compute water footprint (litres) from food and household usage using water-footprint-network factors: beef 15415, pork 5988, poultry 4325, rice 2497, cheese 5060 L/kg, plus shower 9 L/min, dishwasher 15 L/load, laundry 50 L/load, toilet 6 L/flush. Returns a per-item breakdown, daily and annual litres and cubic meters. Answers 'water footprint of eating beef','litres per shower','annual household water use','water cost of rice'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/calc/carbon-water-footprint

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit120/minute

CacheNo cache

carbonwaterfootprintusagesustainabilityresourcehouseholdlitres

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/calc/carbon-water-footprint

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "usage": {
    "showerMin": 10,
    "laundryLoad": 1
  }
}

Example response

{
  "period": "day",
  "breakdown": [
    {
      "item": "showerMin",
      "quantity": 10,
      "litres": 90
    },
    {
      "item": "laundryLoad",
      "quantity": 1,
      "litres": 50
    }
  ],
  "litres": 140,
  "annualLitres": 51100,
  "annualCubicMeters": 51.1,
  "dailyLitres": 140
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "usage"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "usage": {
      "type": "object",
      "additionalProperties": {
        "type": "number"
      },
      "description": "unit -> quantity; units: beefKg,porkKg,poultryKg,riceKg,wheatKg,cheeseKg,showerMin,dishwasherLoad,laundryLoad,toiletFlush",
      "examples": [
        {
          "showerMin": 10,
          "laundryLoad": 1
        }
      ]
    },
    "period": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "day",
        "year"
      ],
      "default": "day"
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}