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Farming sounds very plausible: http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/californias-drought-whos-really-using-all-the-water/ http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/calif
by derwiki 13y ago
Farming sounds very plausible:
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/californias-drought-whos-really-using-all-the-water/ http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/californias-drought-whos-...
and something I never thought about: ".. humans drink less than one gallon of water per day, but a cow can drink up to 23 gallons of water a day."
- bluedino 13y agoThink about the sheer acreage in the USA compared to England and how much of the land is used for crops or livestock.
- Hannan 13y ago>> ".. humans drink less than one gallon of water per day, but a cow can drink up to 23 gallons of water a day." They do weigh a bit more though. :) It probably ends up being ~2x-3x a human's water consumption by weight.