Virtual water

A person living in Greece consumes more or less 1,668 litres of drinking water per year.

Virtual water, on the other hand, is the water used in the production of goods and services we use. For example, to produce a McDonald's Big Mac takes about 2,400 litres of water, most of which is used to grow the grain that feeds the cattle.

It takes five litres of water to produce one litre of bottled water (four litres required for production of the plastic bottle, plus the one litre of drinking water).

Here are some more examples that will blow your mind off!

 

2,110 galons = 9,592 litres of water used only to produce a pair of shoes!

How many years of drinking water consumption is equivalent to a new T-shirt and pair of jeans?

Think before you buy! Do you really need them?

More than your life?