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How much H20 goes into everyday products.
Microchip
8 gallons
Apple
18 gallons
Pint of beer
20 gallons
4 oz. wine
32 gallons
16 oz. Diet Coke
33 gallons
4 oz. coffee
37 gallons
7 oz. orange juice
45 gallons
Diaper
214 gallons
1 lb. chicken
467 gallons
1 lb. cheese
599 gallons
Hamburger
634 gallons
Cotton T-shirt
719 gallons
Ream of white paper
1,321 gallons
1 lb. beef
1,857 gallons
Pair of leather shoes
2,113 gallons
Pair of jeans
2,866 gallons
Midsize car
39,090 gallons
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Comments
microchip water?
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon Aug. 3, 2009 2:36 AM PDT.
I'd have to dispute the 8 gallons used to create a microchip. Chips require enormous amounts of acids, solvents, etches and other chemicals in the process. Water is used in the manufacture of all of those to some degree. 8 Gallons seems like it would only be the pure water used and not the water used in the products used directly
I don't know the details,
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat Aug. 8, 2009 6:32 PM PDT.
I don't know the details, and that does seem a bit low to me. But keep in mind the scale; the "enormous amounts of acids, solvents, etches, and other chemicals" are being used to make chips that are at most a couple square centimeters, so they're amortized over a pretty good number of chips.
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Intriguing, but useless,
Submitted by murison (not verified) on Tue Oct. 27, 2009 6:57 AM PDT.
Intriguing, but useless, since you provide no references or sourcing. For all I know, you're just making this up. Please provide evidence that these numbers are real -- I'd love to link to this but currently cannot. Shame on you.
SOURCES? what are your
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue Oct. 27, 2009 10:15 AM PDT.
SOURCES? what are your sources for this information?
Agreed on the lack of
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed Oct. 28, 2009 10:44 AM PDT.
Agreed on the lack of sources. This information doesn't mean jack unless I know how it was derived.
Controversial information, No sources, Load of horse****
Submitted by Gary Brown (not verified) on Thu Oct. 29, 2009 5:49 AM PDT.
Amazing the mindless stuff that gets published and then repeated (I came to this article from Slate that referenced it)...give us some sources next time...where's the professional journalism???
It's a good thing that all
Submitted by Tomcatshanger (not verified) on Thu Oct. 29, 2009 7:45 AM PDT.
It's a good thing that all that water is gone from the face of the earth for all eternity.
I mean, if all those thousands of gallons could in some way be reused at a later time, perhaps after human produced means or even allowing it to evaporate and fall as precipitation at a later time, then these numbers would be as pointless as, well, as pointless as they already are.
Sourcing
Submitted by Jen Phillips on Thu Oct. 29, 2009 4:02 PM PDT.
Thanks for reading, everyone. Because water footprint is a relatively new calculation, a lot of the sourcing for this box is from studies by Dr. Arjen Hoekstra at Universiteit Twente in the Netherlands. In particular, I used his studies on cotton and various products made as exports. Prof. Hoekstra also put together a great site: http://www.waterfootprint.org/. It lists water footprints of many everyday objects and has a good index of academic studies, so check it out.
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