WEN joined MUD to celebrate Earth Day. The theme sustainability theme: 'Do it yourself with others' came alive with businesses and nonprofits offering their own educational activities. WEN brought aquatic macroinvertebrates from the Clark Fork River and offered aquatic macroinvert water coloring. We also had a few educational factoids on how much water it takes to produce every day consumables like meat and cotton. A few of our interns and volunteers came to help out at our table. Good music, good food, great weather, and good people! We met a some new friends and learned about the cool work our fellow nonprofits/businesses do to encourage sustainable living every day.
Amazing water facts included:
1lb of beef requires 1799 gallons of water. 3lbs of grain for feed, plus irrigation water. 16.4lbs of roughage or grasses for feed, plus irrigation water. 18.6 gallons of additional water for drinking and processing.
1 gallon of wine requires 1008 gallons of water . 63.4 gallons of water for 1 cup. Most of the water used for wine production is for growing grapes.
1 T-shirt requires 713 gallons of water 45% for irrigation 41% is rainwater that evaporates off of cotton fields 14% is for treating wastewater from fields and factories
One egg requires 53 gallons of water. Each lb of chicken requires 2 lbs of grain for feed and the associated irrigation of water
1lb of chocolate requires 3170 gallons of water. Each lb of dark chocolate is 40% cocoa paste, 20% cocoa butter. Cocoa paste has a water footprint of 3993.8 gallons of water for 1lb. Cocoa butter has a water footprint of 6091.7 gallons of water for 1lb.
To calculate your water footprint, visit these sites: Water Footprint Network; and for a more kid oriented approach: H2O Conserve
All of our facts came from National Geographics Freshwater page: Water per Pound, Drinking Water and Sanitation Quiz
They have some awesome interactive water quizes. Absolutely worth checking out!
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