{"id":3374,"date":"2019-10-09T06:34:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T19:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2019-10-09T08:07:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T21:07:57","slug":"which-food-takes-the-most-water-to-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/which-food-takes-the-most-water-to-produce\/","title":{"rendered":"Which food takes the most water to produce?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The average Australian&#8217;s diet has a water scarcity footprint of 362 litres per day. A water scarcity footprint consists of two elements: the litres of water used, multiplied by a weighting  depending on whether water scarcity at the source is higher or lower  than the global average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foods with some of the highest water \nscarcity footprints were almonds (3,448 litres\/kg), dried apricots \n(3,363 litres\/kg) and breakfast cereal made from puffed rice (1,464 \nlitres\/kg).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, foods with some of the smallest water  scarcity footprint included wholemeal bread (11.3 litres\/kg), oats (23.4  litres\/kg), and soaked chickpeas (5.9 litres\/kg).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 9,000 diets studied, 25 per cent of the water scarcity footprint  came from discretionary foods and beverages such as cakes, biscuits,  sugar-sweetened drinks and alcohol <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> Food systems account for about 70 per cent of global freshwater use. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the whole article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-10-07\/chocolate-wine-food-production-water-use-climate-change\/11578608\">https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-10-07\/chocolate-wine-food-production-water-use-climate-change\/11578608<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average Australian&#8217;s diet has a water scarcity footprint of 362 litres per day. A water scarcity footprint consists of two elements: the litres of water used, multiplied by a weighting depending on whether water scarcity at the source is higher or lower than the global average. Foods with some of the highest water scarcity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,5],"tags":[37,26],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment-biodiversity","category-stuff-that-matters","tag-environment-and-biodiversity","tag-the-naked-emperor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}