Even though water covers nearly three-quarters of this blue dot of ours, most of that is salt water. We need freshwater to fuel the world. And freshwater is not as limitless as it seems, so wasting is it a no no. Here's how much water we use to make, well, the things we use. The water footprint of products comes from
Imagine All the Water, a site created by the European Commission:
- Beef - 15,415 liters of water
- Hamburger - 2,393 liters of water
- Pizza - 1,216 liters of water
- Jeans - 9,982 liters of water
- Shoes - 8,547 liters of water
- T-Shirt - 2,495 liters of water
- Rice - 2,497 liters of water
- Chocolate - 1,720 liters of water
- Beer - 170 liters of water per pint
- Cheese - 152 liters of water
- Coffee - 132 liters of water per cup
- Apple - 82 liters of water
- Loaf of Bread - 48 liters of water
- Paper - 13 liters of water per sheet
