GOOD delivers yet another strikingly clean infographic on how to reduce your water footprint by changing your diet and lifestyle. The chart is composed of both direct water usage (how much water you use) and virtual water usage (how much water was used to make the thing you’re using).
Apparently, it takes a whole lot of water to raise a cow big enough to provide you with at least one pound of beef. I wonder if this water usage is divided by the total amount of beef that a cow can be used for, or if this one pound of beef represents an entire cow. In any case, that burger is looking really evil next to that bowl of salad once the water usage is measured up.
