How much water do we actually eat? To produce our favorite foods we need to grow and water plants. Then we can eat these plants or feed them to farm animals which we also happen to eat in the end. Water that is required to produce our food is called virtual water. In fact we eat more water than we drink, by a factor you can’t even imagine. The water consumption of all daily activities together (showering, flushing the toilet, watering the garden, etc.) doesn’t even get close to amount of water we virtually eat. | ![]() |
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Let’s do some simple math together! During my research in the world wide web I found some interesting numbers and tables (see tables below) that I want to use to give you a feeling of the dimensions we are talking about. We calculate the amount of water the US could save by reducing their meat… |
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