It takes 880 gallons of water to produce one cup of coffee according to National Geographic (using the Water Footprint Calculator).
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
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?
My issue is that it was posted with no explanation or comment.
Presumably this includes the water required for the plants' cultivation.It takes 880 gallons of water to produce one cup of coffee according to National Geographic (using the Water Footprint Calculator).
Presumably this includes the water required for the plants' cultivation.
Yes, indeedI 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.
...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."...http://www.gracelinks.org/196/the-water-footprint-of-energy
There is as much water on the planet today as there ever was.