Know Your Water Footprint

People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but even more for producing things such as food, paper and cotton clothes.  The water footprint is an indicator of water use that looks at both direct and indirect water use of a consumer or producer.   The water footprint of an individual, community or business is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual or community or produced by the business.

Nicholas Kenny from the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is here with some pretty eye-opening statistics about how much water we're really using.