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Chart of Water Required by Food Type

Water Required by Food Type

2005 version of this chart

Sources

Global Assessment of the Water Footprint of Farm Animal Products, Mekonnen and Hoekstra; waterfootprint.org/media/downloads/
Mekonnen-Hoekstra-2012WaterFootprintFarmAnimalProducts.pdf

Tags: water to produce food, litres of water to produce protein, fresh water use for food production, water required by food type, fresh-water

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