On top of your carbon footprint, there’s also a ‘water footprint’ to consider…
By ScienceAlert Australia and New Zealand
Posted 22.10.2020 at 6:48 am
First we were measuring our ecological footprint - the area of land and resources it takes to support our lifestyles.
More recently we heard about our carbon footprint - the amount of carbon we emit in our activities.
Now, welcome to our water footprint, the total amount of fresh water used to produce the goods and services we consume.
The Netherlands-based Water Footprint Network has calculated that it takes 75 litres of water to produce one glass of beer, with most of the water used in producing the barley for the beer.
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