> For water consumption, that same ton of lithium takes 170 cubic meters, which is about 2 person-months of urban Chilean water consumption. m3 of water is a n

> For water consumption, that same ton of lithium takes 170 cubic meters, which is about 2 person-months of urban Chilean water consumption. m3 of water is a nonsense metric. Water is abundant in some places, and in those places it might as well be free. In other places it is highly scarce. Furthermore water is not consumed it's just borrowed for a while. So really you need to look at it more qualitatively, tell a story of the consequences of the water use.