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The water doesn’t get “spent” though, unless you manage to turn it into some toxic sludge (which I imagine US farms do). In the usual resource lifecycle of a c
by jiofih 6y ago
The water doesn’t get “spent” though, unless you manage to turn it into some toxic sludge (which I imagine US farms do).
In the usual resource lifecycle of a cattle farm, that water goes right back where it came from - 99% is “green water”.
- simias 6y agoAnimal urine and feces are not clean water, if you only have a couple of animals it doesn't matter but at a large scale you need to treat it before releasing it into the wild unless you want to taint the water supply. Of course the water molecules don't disappear, but that's not the point. There's plenty of water on earth, but only a tiny fraction is clean enough for human consumption. If you pour your bottle of mineral water into the ocean, the water doesn't disappear but you still effectively wasted it. >you wouldn’t have a farm away from a water source. That's sort of the problem actually. Many aquifers are tainted to various levels because of farming. We need clean water, not cow piss.
- jiofih 6y agoThis is only a problem for mass-scale industrial farming - that is the thing to be avoided instead of looking for fixes for its consequences.