Its something that you might not normally think about, but we were discussing it in my Geog class and I thought it was pretty interesting… and shocking…
The water footprint is an indicator of water use that includes both direct and indirect water use of a consumer or producer. The water footprint of an individual, community or business is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual or community or produced by the business.
Would never have guessed:
70 litres of water for one apple.
15500 litres of water for one kg of beef.
75 litres of water for one beer.
140 litres of water for one cup of coffee.
Crazy huh?
This is the best: (maybe don’t eat hamburgers anymore…)
This is kind of neat: http://www.waterfootprint.org/?page=cal/WaterFootprintCalculator
Figure out what your water footprint is!
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