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7. What is a Water Footprint?: An Overview and Applications in Agriculture

Reply to politicaljunkie41910 (Reply #6)

Mon Feb 24, 2014, 02:41 PM

Feb 2014

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ae484

The green, blue and grey water footprint
of crops and derived crop products
M. M. Mekonnen and A. Y. Hoekstra

http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/7177/green.pdf?sequence=1

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It Takes How Much Water to Grow an Almond?! California's drought is a disaster for your favorites [View all] G_j Feb 2014 OP

500 year event nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #1

Wow..terrific graphic post and scary as hell! PearliePoo2 Feb 2014 #2

It's hard to say. Xithras Feb 2014 #5

Almonds are so tasty, but I've always thought that using them for milk was terribly wasteful. Brickbat Feb 2014 #3

Dairy milk actually uses much more water. The EPA says it's 1,000 gallons of water LeftyMom Feb 2014 #8

Our local ID recently announced the water allotments for this year. Xithras Feb 2014 #4

I'm not buying this. 4.9 gallons of water for ONE walnut. I think this is propaganda and I'm not politicaljunkie41910 Feb 2014 #6

What is a Water Footprint?: An Overview and Applications in Agriculture G_j Feb 2014 #7

kick for visibility: people need to be aware of this! hedgehog Feb 2014 #9

Agriculture won't shift locations after one year of drought, or even a few. hedgehog Feb 2014 #10

You can bitch about California agriculture Le Taz Hot Feb 2014 #11

Certainly an important issue, but it misrepresents reality by depending on the fact that Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #12

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