We want 2400 for a hamburger
To make a cup of coffee it takes 140 litres of virtual water. The account is soon whether to water used to fill the moka adds that needed to grow, produce, package and ship coffee beans. But is nothing compared to 2,400 litres of water that used to have a hamburger on your plate. The measure of ‘ “virtual water” is linked to the new concept of consumption.
Behind a common cup of coffee with whom half the world makes breakfast every morning there are 140 litres of “virtual water”. The same amount used on average by a person in Britain for drinking and for domestic users.
A revolutionary concept, that of so-called “virtual water”, linked to agriculture, climate change, economies and policies, which led its author Anthony Allan, King’s College London and School of Oriental and African Studies to win the Stockholm Water Prize 2008 , Delivered during World Water Week (drink vending machines).
But how much water “virtual” a person consumes in 24 hours? According to calculations by Allan an American consumes about 6,800 litres of blue virtual gold per day, about three times a Chinese.
And the Italians? I spreconi, according to the Aduc. If the demands of life just 2.5 litres of water per day, in our country will consume well 215.
Here is the breakdown of wastes according to the association of consumers: 23% for personal cleaning (bathroom, shower, teeth and hands); 14% to wash (clothes, linens, dishes and pots), 13% for uses cooking (cooking), 28% in the toilet flushes of Cabinet; 14% in annaffiature; 8% loss of plants. In fact, recalls the Aduc, most of the resource goes to agriculture, industry and then only in small part to domestic consumption. ”Every time you turn the lever of sciacquone throw away about 8 liters of drinking water, “recalls Prime Mastrantoni, secretary dell’Aduc.
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