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Next up: Trade in water is trade in grain, corn, dairy, meat.

120 gallons of water for an egg 4000 gallons of water for a bushel of corn 11000 gallons of water for a bushel of wheat

That is..2 lbs or baked bread is 1000 gallons of water.

You are wearing 650 gallons of water if you were wearing a cotton shirt.

And wait for this: 135000 gallons of water for a ton of alfafa(which btw we exported cheap to China during California drought because it was cheaper to send that in empty shipping containers going back than truck it to a California dairy farms)



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