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

Mon Feb 24, 2014, 02:53 PM

Feb 2014

to make one of milk, but other sources say it's as much as twice that. Probably depends a bit on local conditions for growing feed, etc.

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