It takes a lot of water…
• 650 gallons for a pound of rice
• 130 gallons for a pound of wheat
• 65 gallons for a pound of potatoes
• 3000 gallons for one hamburger
• 500-1000 gallons for a quart of milk
As a typical meat-eating, beer-swilling, milk-guzzling Westerner, I consume a hundred times my own weight in water every day
• MAXIMUM SUPPLY: 1400 cubic yards each a year
• MY ANNUAL WATER USE: 2000 cubic yards a year
• WE HAVE A PROBLEM
“The battle to feed the world is over… billions will die in the
1980s”
--Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, 1968