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Your Water Footprint

Your Water Footprint

The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products

by Stephen Leahy
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/11/2014

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'Your Water Footprint' reveals the true cost of a lifestyle in which water is consumed at phenomenal rates. A "water footprint" is the amount of fresh water used to produce the goods and services we consume, including growing, harvesting, packaging, and shipping. From the foods we eat to the clothes we wear to the books we read and the music we listen to, all of it costs more than what we pay at the check-out. The 125 footprint facts in this book show the true cost of our lifestyle and what it is doing to Earth, including draining it dry. The "Virtual Water Concept" shows the amount of water used in human activities. Presented in clever, understandable graphics, Your Water Footprint raises readers' awareness of how much water is used to make the things we use, consume and grow. What we put on our dinner table has a very high cost. Nearly 95 percent of our water footprint is hidden in the food we eat: . One pound of lettuce costs 57 litres of freshwater; mango 719 litres; avocado 832 litres; tofu 923 litres; rice 1,525 litres; olives 1,975 litres; pork 6,170 litres; butter 7,737 litres; chocolate 10,777 litres; and beef 9,463 to 18,927 litres. . A slice of bread costs 38 litres a slice of cheese, 49 litres. . One glass of beer takes 76 litres of water, and just one standard cup of tea costs 120 same-sized cups of water. A cotton t-shirt takes almost as much water as beef, a pair of jeans even more. In fact, all aspects of our daily lives require water in some way, shape or form. The saying that "nothing is free" applies more to water than anything else we consume, considering just three percent of the world's water is drinkable and that we are using more of it than ever before. Factor in climate change, population growth and pollution and we have an unsustainable situation. Many experts predict dire water shortages if we continue on our current path. 'Your Water Footprint' is riveting. Consumers of all ages will be stunned by what it reveals. It is an excellent reference and an exciting way to introduce the resource-consumption equation to students. AUTHOR: Stephen Leahy is an environmental journalist based in Ontario, Canada. His work has appeared in National Geographic, The Guardian (UK), Sunday Times and New Scientist. He is a senior science and environment correspondent at Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS), the world's largest not-for-profit news agency. He won the 2012 Prince Albert/United Nations Global Prize for Climate Change. 125 illustrations
ISBN:
9781770852952
9781770852952
Category:
Drought & water supply
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-11-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Firefly Books Ltd
Country of origin:
Canada
Pages:
160
Dimensions (mm):
279x216x0mm
Weight:
0.68kg

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