"An organic cotton tote needs to be used 20,000 times to offset its overall impact of production."

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10. No, I didn't, but I wouldn't be surprised. There are many items that are grown that require ...

loads of water too, besides just cotton...not to mention items that are manufactured, that require loads of water (I won't list here, available via a goggle search)...

Other crops are wheat, sugarcane, eggplant, watermelon, onion, spinach, strawberries, lettuce, tomatoes, etc.

Tree nuts like almonds, pistachios, walnuts, and cashews are actually some of the most water-intensive crops grown today (me ---> farmers in Calif. are actually pulling out their nut trees as a result of their water shortages in Calif. too as we speak)...


Perhaps this is a desirable trend that those that are suffering water shortages are thus reverting to items/crops that need less water? I don't know. Especially if this drought continues in the West, I suspect that this will be so, that they'll shift their production somewhat to what's actually readily available in their environment.

One additional point too, farmers etc. in these irrigation fed farming areas have always not paid the full price of the water that they receive via irrigation ... perhaps maybe a more realistic, market-based pricing is needed too?