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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Hungry for water
  • Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:22:19 -0700


More reasons to grow with moisture-conserving methods - mulch, no-till,
intensive, and only grassfed beef

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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Hungry for water
22 Mar 2007 15:53:00 GMT
Reuters AlertNet

How much water does it take to produce a cup of tea? More than you might
think - about 35 litres (8 gallons). That's because you need buckets of the
stuff to grow the tea leaves in the first place. By the same logic, it
takes about 1,450 litres to produce a kilogram of wheat. And a kilo of beef
requires up to 15,000 litres, the amount necessary to grow the grain to
feed the cow that ends up in your burger.

Today, on World Water Day, I'm reminded that the international food trade
is essentially a form of water trade. If you live where water is scarce,
it's more efficient to import sacks of corn than the millions of tonnes of
water needed to produce it all yourself. So food becomes a kind of virtual
water import.

...With global warming, a ballooning world population and rapid
urbanisation, the stakes are getting higher. By 2025, experts say 3.4
billion people will be living in countries where water is scarce. Shortages
will fuel conflicts and trigger mass migrations. Diseases will thrive and
multiply amid poor sanitation.

entire article
http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/1564/2007/02/22-155304-1.htm






  • [Livingontheland] Hungry for water, TradingPostPaul, 03/23/2007

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