Coffee and its Water Footprint
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Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
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jennyema
Chef Extraordinaire
According to NGS's estimate it takes only 55 gallons to make a cup of coffee.
880 gallons to make a gallon of coffee.
It also takes 880 gallons of water to make a gallon of milk.
Water Calculator Methodology - National Geographic
Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
Not a comment on the forum you chose. Hard to know what to do with that isolated fact. Is 880 gallons a lot, a little?
Thank you jenny for correcting my post. You're SO right and I posted the wrong numbers.
As you can see I posted the wrong numbers, which jenny corrected. It's still a lot, in my opinion.
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Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
My issue is that it was posted with no explanation or comment.
Noted.
jennyema
Chef Extraordinaire
Interesting...
"We live in a watery world, with the average American lifestyle fueled by nearly 2,000 gallons of H2O a day.
What may come as a surprise is that very little of that—only five percent—runs through toilets, taps, and garden hoses at home. Nearly 95 percent of your water footprint is hidden in the food you eat, energy you use, products you buy, and services you rely on.
Find out your water footprint, then pledge to dry it out, joining other nationalgeographic.com users who have already committed to saving thousands of gallons.
The more we save, the more water we leave for healthy ecosystems and a sustainable future. "
http://environment.nationalgeograph...change-the-course/water-footprint-calculator/
"We live in a watery world, with the average American lifestyle fueled by nearly 2,000 gallons of H2O a day.
What may come as a surprise is that very little of that—only five percent—runs through toilets, taps, and garden hoses at home. Nearly 95 percent of your water footprint is hidden in the food you eat, energy you use, products you buy, and services you rely on.
Find out your water footprint, then pledge to dry it out, joining other nationalgeographic.com users who have already committed to saving thousands of gallons.
The more we save, the more water we leave for healthy ecosystems and a sustainable future. "
http://environment.nationalgeograph...change-the-course/water-footprint-calculator/
Mad Cook
Master Chef
Presumably this includes the water required for the plants' cultivation.
I don't know what happened to the reply I thought I'd sent----- Of course water required for cultivation is included.
But that figure I'd first posted was wrong and jenny wisely corrected it. Read all the posts and you'll see the number of gallons for ONE CUP of coffee is greatly reduced. But still a lot IMHO.
Not about coffee but still talking about the water footprint:
"Corn-based ethanol G, which the United States touts as an eco-friendly alternative fuel, places an even higher demand on water supplies than gasoline. A recent study found that as corn-based ethanol production doubled between 2005 and 2008, related water use more than tripled. On average, it takes 3.5 to 6 gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol as compared to 1 to 2.5 to produce one gallon of gasoline."
The Water Footprint of Energy
"Corn-based ethanol G, which the United States touts as an eco-friendly alternative fuel, places an even higher demand on water supplies than gasoline. A recent study found that as corn-based ethanol production doubled between 2005 and 2008, related water use more than tripled. On average, it takes 3.5 to 6 gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol as compared to 1 to 2.5 to produce one gallon of gasoline."
The Water Footprint of Energy
Mad Cook
Master Chef
Yes, indeed
Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
Sadly, it's not as simple as simply comparing water footprints. Consider what happens to the water used to grow the corn to make the ethanol. Either via irrigation or rain, plants are watered so they will grow. That water either evaporates and falls as rain again or ends up in the water table for reuse via irrigation systems.
There is as much water on the planet today as there ever was.
Are We Running Out of Water? – News Watch
There's always a "catch". But people ARE looking into how to fix it. Maybe.
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