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So explain Spain. They have massive farming operations in a rather dry area and yet use significantly less water than the US. A significant portion of the veget

• sgk284 13y ago
  Every square meter of Spain could be farmland and the United States would still have 3.5x as much farmland (that is, Spain's total landarea is less than a third of the United State's cropland). As it stands, the United States has about an order of magnitude more cropland than Spain[1]. [1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=farmland+in+united+states+vs+spain http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=farmland+in+united+stat...
  • kalleboo 13y ago
    You'd need to look at farmland per capita to interpret the original numbers, not just total farmland.
    • sgk284 13y ago
      Not sure that's fair if the United States is exporting a larger percentage of it's agriculture (as in, that water is indirectly being consumed by other nations). So we'd need to account for who exports / imports from each nation. Regardless, the United States has 1.4x as much cropland per capita, which already accounts for a good portion of the 1.8x increase in water usage per capita.
• vacri 13y ago
  Spain doesn't get heavy snow across the half of it every year. The US does get a hell of a lot of water falling on it.