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It takes a lot of water… 650 gallons for a pound of rice 130 gallons for a pound of wheat 65 gallons for a pound of potatoes 3000 gallons for one hamburger.

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2 It takes a lot of water… 650 gallons for a pound of rice 130 gallons for a pound of wheat 65 gallons for a pound of potatoes 3000 gallons for one hamburger 500-1000 gallons for a quart of milk

3 As a typical meat-eating, beer- swilling, milk-guzzling Westerner, I consume a hundred times my own weight in water every day

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8 MAXIMUM SUPPLY: 1400 cubic yards each a year MY ANNUAL WATER USE: 2000 cubic yards a year WE HAVE A PROBLEM

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10 “The battle to feed the world is over… billions will die in the 1980s” --Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, 1968

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