Take a big bite of water
How many gallons of water go into your food?
Reducing personal water consumption by taking shorter showers and letting your lawn go dry are great ideas, but you can really make an impact by cutting burgers—both beef and soy—out of your diet. Here’s a sampling of foods and the amount of water it takes to produce them.
Food / Gallons of water per ounce of food
Beef / 106.28
Chickpeas / 76.07
Peas / 44.53
Pork / 41.25
Mangoes / 28.5
Soyburger / 21.84
Soymilk / 20.53
Asparagus / 20.32
Chicken / 16.61
Rice / 16.26
Eggs / 11.73
Source: Los Angeles Times.
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