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Originally Posted by The Fonz
All food/beverage production requires insane amounts of L water/kg production:
Chocolate - 17,200
Almonds - 16,100
Beef - 15,400
Cashews - 14,200
Chickpeas - 10,100
Lentils - 5,900
Chicken - 4,300
Rice - 2,500
Oats - 2,400
Coffee (1kg of Brewed) - 2,300
Bread - 1,600
Avacado - 1,200
Milk - 1,000
What would be interesting to see is rather than L/kg of production, it was L/g protein or some other nutritional component. Coffee and Chocolate would obviously look awful in this scenario.
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I am really late to this point, but water usage of animals to plant products is not always a fair comparison. For example, A lot of the water it takes to produce beef is actually tied up in the feed of beef, that is pasture grass and barely, both of which require quite a bit less water than most crops. Also, the water which cows drink is often recycled through urine. Also, in this equation they include the water cows which are not slaughtered consume.
We know cows require a lot of water, that being said, their relative environmental impact as it relates to water usage is far less intense than lentils for example which need a lot of water and nutrients from a small amount of land, as apposed to cows which take up a water from a larger catchment radius.
That being said, other meat products take far less water than cows, goats, pigs and chickens for example are, from a water consumption perspective, more environmentally conscious than other protein sources lentils included.