• April 28, 2024

How much water do you use in your daily life? Maybe you calculate the amount of liquid you drink or use to perform your activities such as washing clothes, watering your plants or bathing; however, you should take into account the so-called virtual water.

Virtual water is one that is not seen or accounted for, because it is used to produce the products or services you consume, for example, in the production of meat, milk, the making of clothes or your car.

Know the real liters you use!

So that you have an idea of ​​your actual consumption of liquid, the SMA and GetQoralHealth They give you some information about the virtual water that you use daily.

1. A kilo of meat requires 16 thousand liters of water
2. A cup of coffee requires 140 liters
3. One kilo of corn requires 900 liters
4. A liter of milk requires a thousand liters
5. One kilo of rice requires two thousand 500 liters
6. One kilo of sugar requires one thousand 800 liters
7. One kilo of cotton requires 10 thousand liters

The consumption of virtual water and your water footprint (total volume of fresh water that you use to produce goods) increase according to various factors such as the amount of meat you eat, the use of disposable or durable products, among others.

Even some countries have a very high consumption of virtual water, depending on the type of diet that its inhabitants have.

If you want to know more about this and other topics related to water, as well as practical advice for its intelligent and rational use, visit the page care.gua.df.gob.mx. And you, how much virtual water do you consume per day?

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