rawstory.com — A British scientist was awarded a prize for a formula which calculates the amount of water used in the production of all sorts of things. We don't only consume water when we drink it, after all. 1 Hamburger requires 634 gallons of water to produce it!
Mar 19, 2008 View in Crawl 4
zen4444Mar 20, 2008
Good point. Where do people think used water goes anyways? In my case it goes out to my drain field in my backyard and is naturally filtered by about a hundred feet of sediment, and goes back into the ground water and I drink it again! I'm so sick of these environuts who are obviously so bored with their pathetic lives that they need a way to make themselves feel important by spreading around artificial guilt everywhere! They are becoming worse than christians in the guilt spreading department.
Closed AccountMar 20, 2008
There's a Soviet Russia joke in there somewhere, methinks.
the_red_monkeyMar 20, 2008
Um buried for being lame. OMG everything on this water filled blue dot uses water. Weak.
shadeofgreyMar 20, 2008
All the rain is going down there to make coffee, apparently.
chronusmcgeeMar 22, 2008
*blows raspberry*Um, first use, eh?You probably don't want to know how many times the water in you body has come out of a cow's backside then...
kyletinMar 24, 2008
this is sooo stupid. i'm just going to walk down to the ocean and lap up some water. mmmm salty and refreshing...
amishdiggerMar 16, 2009
These treehugger fools. they must have been measuring the Ocean-water the ship that brings the coffee-beans swims on, or maybe the floodwaters of the monsun that floods the farm fields in some areas.Once again, they try to deceive us into believing this is "tap-water" we're talking about. If this were true, the world wouldn't have enough water. In truth however, there's even enough water so some idiots can take 3 showers per day.
maca01May 19, 2009
The point of this isn't to say the water itself is lost once we've used it... This is not a scare tactic from environmentalists, it is useful science. Imagine you own farmland in an area suffering from drought; you can't just build houses on it because it's pretty much in the middle of no where. This sort of science is useful for you to know how much water is required for various crops because you can work out what crop will be the most profitable for you. Firstly you work out what crops (animals included if the crop is say "grass") are suitable for the soil type on your farmland. Then you work out how much you can grow with the rainfall you do tend to get plus the water you can take for irrigation from the regional water supplies. When you know how much you can grow of each crop you work out what you could sell it for and one will be the most profitable for you.Many people have just treated this as scare tactics from environmentalists. They have laughed it off saying water comes back as rain (once it has been used and gone through the water cycle). True, but not every drop comes back in a useful form... What I mean is the water we use is clean and is collected in special reservoirs and stored for use by households etc. Much of the worlds "rainfall" finds its way into very polluted rivers and streams. While many of the people commenting here are obviously from regions where water is not scarce, there are many places where a litre of water costs more than a litre of petrol. Clean, Fresh Water is a precious commodity which we tend to take for granted. And although it's not the main point of this article as the majority of people have taken it to be, we should actually be seriously thinking about how we use water more responsibly. Looks to me like most of the people digging this have got it wrong on two counts...