What it’s like to live in California and everyone is talking about the drought? There is a forum app called NextDoor, where neighbors talk about local issues. There is a lot of talk about our current drought, where water restrictions are now enforced. We cannot use irrigation only overhead watering for instance. Since when did monitoring personal water usage become …
Water Footprint of Food
The Water Footprint of Foods “California is experiencing one of its driest years in the past half millennium. It also happens to be the country’s leading dairy supplier. With profits surpassing $7 billion in 2012, the California dairy industry is far and away the most valuable sector of the state’s enormous agricultural bounty. Unfortunately…dairy products use a whole lot of …
Study on impact of water usage for 1 pound of beef = 2500 gallons water
“We are quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers.” Peter Singer