Water Usage in Consumer Goods Manufacturing
March 15th, 2010 | 1 Comment
Consumer Goods Suck Up Surprising Amounts of Water: This is just crazy.
The $1 bag of refined sugar in many American kitchens requires more than 283 gallons of water to produce. The $20 bag of dog food on store shelves takes more than 4,000 gallons.
March 16th, 2010 at 7:25 am (#)
This is something I have never been able to wrap my mind around. Maybe it’s because I grew up in the land of 10,000 lakes, but I could never figure out how water consumption is a big deal. It’s an extremely renewable resource. You use it, it get’s back to being surface water a one point or another, it evaporates….it falls back to the earth as rain. Is there something I missed in 4th grade science?