It takes a lot of water… 650 gallons for a pound of rice 130 gallons for a pound of wheat 65 gallons for a pound of potatoes 3000 gallons for one hamburger.

It takes a lot of water…

• 650 gallons for a pound of rice

• 130 gallons for a pound of wheat

• 65 gallons for a pound of potatoes

• 3000 gallons for one hamburger

• 500-1000 gallons for a quart of milk

As a typical meat-eating, beer-swilling, milk-guzzling Westerner, I consume a hundred times my own weight in water every day

• MAXIMUM SUPPLY: 1400 cubic yards each a year

• MY ANNUAL WATER USE: 2000 cubic yards a year

• WE HAVE A PROBLEM

“The battle to feed the world is over… billions will die in the

1980s”

--Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, 1968

heading north