{"id":7579,"date":"2009-03-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/03\/21\/impact-of-beef-production-on-water-resources\/"},"modified":"2009-03-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:00:00","slug":"impact-of-beef-production-on-water-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/03\/21\/impact-of-beef-production-on-water-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of Beef Production on Water Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/awesome.goodmagazine.com\/transparency\/web\/trans0309walkthisway.html\">awesome.goodmagazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">USA, March 22, 2009: Potable water is destined to be a commodity in increasingly short supply. The image at the &#8220;Source&#8221; link (which HPI suggests as very enlightening on the subject) provides a compelling pictorial statement of various water-use choices, especially the tremendous drain on our resources represented by beef production.<\/p>\n<p>Producing a single pound of beef requires 1,500 gallons of water. It takes 634 gallons of water to produce a hamburger, but only 6% of that (38 gallons) to produce a baked potato and a salad containing 1\/2 lb. lettuce, 1\/2 lb. tomato and 1\/4 lb. carrots.<\/p>\n<p>Breakfasting on a bowl of cereal with milk, an orange and a cup of tea (instead of two eggs, an apple and a cup of coffee) saves 83 gallons per person per day.<\/p>\n<p>A 16-oz bottle of soda takes 33 gallons of water to produce&#8211;264 times as much as a 16-oz glass of water! At 8 cups per day, drinking water instead of those other beverages will save a minimum of 78 gallons of potable water per day. In contrast, converting one&#8217;s household to &#8220;Energy Star&#8221; appliances and low-flow toilets, faucets and shower heads can save perhaps 60 gallons per person per day. <\/p>\n<p>And using nuclear energy to power a household requires 255 gallons per day; solar energy requires less than 1\/10 that amount.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>awesome.goodmagazine.com USA, March 22, 2009: Potable water is destined to be a commodity in increasingly short supply. The image at,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}