How much water is is needed to make ___?

Water footprint: Water used to produce itemsCourtesy lorigami This awesome graphic shows how many gallons of water it takes to produce some common foods. Producing a pound of meat can require thousands of gallons of water. So when you pledge to use less water you need to consider how much water was required to make some of the things you use.

What is your "water footprint"?

A good place to start in learning about water consumption is WaterFootPrint.org.
One page calculated water used per person per year for various nations.

• United States ----- 2 1/2 million Kgs
• China --------------- 7/10 million Kgm
• World average ---- 1 1/4 Kgm

There is a Water Footprint Calculator for anyone wishing to compare their personal water usage with others. Everything is metric, though.

Raise you water usage awareness

TreeHugger has water footprint explained using pounds and gallons.
Browse through some of this information and tell us what you learned in the comments.