Something has been on my mind for the last few years, and I'm finally doing a little research. Fortunately, it's easy.

I wanted to know how much water does it take to make certain products, so that I can make better decisions when choosing. Here are a few that I want to know:

1. How much to make a computer, desktop or laptop? Or even just how much to make a circuit board or chip...
2. How much to make a 1 Liter plastic bottle to put a liter of water into?
3. How much to make a 500 sheet ream of paper from scratch? And from recycled materials? And therefore, how much water to make a single sheet of paper?
4. How much water to make a hammer, or a saw?
5. How much water to make all sorts of plastic doo-dads?
6. How much to make clothes from natural fabrics? From synthetics?
7. How much for a paper bag or plastic bag at the grocery store?
   

Let's see what comes up.
Here's a quiz.

Here's the answers to the quiz, because they make you go through heck and high water just to get this important information.

Water required to make one pair of jeans: 1800 gallons
Water required to make one loaf of store bought bread: 1000 gallons
Water required to make one cotton T-shirt: 400 gallons
Water required to make one ounce glass of milk: 48 gallons
Water required to make one pound of plastic: 24 gallons
Water required to make one keg of beer: 1500 gallons
Water required to make one new car: 39,090 gallons


Here's another little one, to figure out how much fresh water it actually takes to make your FOOD.

chant/prayer/mantra: I think Blogger lost my most recent edits for this post. I had some more answers, but here's a picture of some...



Song Lyrics:
From "Story of my life" by Mary Livermore, p. 254

Oh, brethren pray, for cloudy is my way;
Go send dem angels down!
Dere's a fire in de East, an' a fire in de West;
Go send dem angels down!
Ole Satan's mad, an' I am glad;
Go send dem angels down!
He'll miss one soul he t'ought he had;
Go send dem angels down!
I tell yo' now, as I told yo' befo';
Go send dem angels down!
T' de promi' lan' I'm boun' t' go;
Go send dem angels down!

pax hominibus,
agape to all,
joel

Labels: economics, environment, interconnected web, salvation, water justice