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A simple cup of tea with milk and two sugars could actually require 52L of water
- djrogers 10y agoThis is ridiculous: "the water needed to grow the tea leaves and the sugar cane" I don't know much about tea growing, but I do know that sugar cane production is predominantly in areas where rainfall provides the water. If the fields weren't growing sugar cane, they'd be growing weeds and grasses - either way the water is gonna be used.
- wmf 10y agoThe article gets into that later with "green water" vs. "blue water". If only we could introduce some common metric that would allow the different kinds to be compared...