You might already know your carbon footprint, but what's your water footprint?
Similar
in notion to the carbon footprint, the water footprint is a measure of
exactly how much water you use, but also how much goes into the things
you use and consume daily. For example, it takes almost 2000 gallons of
water to yield a pound of beef. Yikes. And that cup of coffee I glugged
down this morning takes almost 37 gallons of water to produce.
Interestingly,
the biggest impact on our water footprint is not what we use to clean
our homes and ourselves, cook, or wash clothes.
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