How much water does it take to grow a hamburger?
Pretty much everything we eat needs water to either grow or create. This water is either supplied by nature as precipitation or added by man during the growing/production process. You can't tell by the size or texture of a food how much water was actually used to produce the food item. To grow that hamburger, for example, it takes water to grow the vegetation the cow eats, water for the cow to drink, water for processing the meat, maybe even water for a cow bath! It all adds up.
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