Home

Advertisement

Customize
 
Previous | Memories | Tell a Friend | Next
 
apocalepsy
apocalepsy
19 May 2007 @ 07:54 pm
Fast facts  
(From a Dow commercial insert in Nat'l Geographic -- that can't be good :-)

  • A shower can use 25 to 50 gallons of water
  • To grow an acre of cotton takes 800,000 gallons of water
  • Leaving the water running while brushing your teeth can waste up to 5 gallons
  • It takes 35 gallons of water to grow, irrigate, process, and cook 1 serving of rice
  • A faucet that drips 60 times in one minute would waste over 6 gallons of water a day; that's 2,400 gallons a year
  • Automatic dishwashers use about 15 gallons a load
  • The average full-tub bath takes 36 gallons
  • It takes 65 gallons of water to process 1 glass of milk Really?
  • 39,000 gallons of water are used to manufacture a new car
  • One flush of a toilet uses as much water as the average person in the developing world uses in a whole day. Which sort of raises the whole question of what we mean by "developing."
 
1 comment | Leave a comment
 
( 1 comment — Post a new comment )
zinniazinnia[info]zinniazinnia on May 21st, 2007 05:59 pm (UTC)
According to google, it takes 2500 gallons t produce one pound of beef. And from this site:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/12/how_to_green_your_water.php (gotta love a site called treehugger.com!), comes this quote:
"To produce 1 kilogram of boneless beef, according to a definitive 2004 UNESCO study on the "water footprint of nations," it takes 6.5 kilograms of grain, 36 kilograms of roughage (coarse grains and pasture), and 155 litres of drinking water (Now Magazine). In The Food Revolution, John Robbins calculates that a vegetarian diet requires only 300 gallons of water per day, while a meat eating diet requires 4,000 gallons per day. You save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you do by not showering for an entire year."

 
 

Advertisement

Customize