Like Food, Half of our Water is Wasted

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Why does France use so much water for its food?

Jeremy previously wrote about how half of all the food produced in the world is wasted; now a new report from the Stockholm International Water Institute says that water waste is just as extreme. To produce the $48 billion in food that is wasted each year in the United States took ten trillion gallons of water. ::PDF of Report Here

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