With our latest Transparency, we give you some examples of how much water is used in some of your daily activities, so that you can begin calculate your footprint and try to reduce your gallons.
To help put things in perspective, think about this: your standard trash barrel holds 32 gallons and a mid-sized passenger car-if pumped full of water-has room for a little more than 800 gallons. So, the difference in the amount of water it takes to produce a pound of chicken and a pound of beef is enough to fill almost two whole cars.*
*If a cow weighs 1400lbs at market weight the amount of water [to grow the grain, grass etc. and consume] used to create that weight as the cow is growing at the same time is staggering.
This is one of the reasons I dramatically reduced my consumption of meat at home more than 30 years ago.
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