The production of 1 kg of beef requires 16, 000 litres of water, while 1 cup of coffee requires 140 L, and compare the US annual per capita footprint at 2,500,000 L to Japan’s 1,150,000 L to China’s 700,000 L.
Posted by envirostats on Friday, November 9, 2007
Just some interesting statistics from a pretty reliable source and great water resource website. [Envirostats author]
- Waterfootprint.org, maintained by the University of Twente in collaboration with the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 5:55 am
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