PSA: I just found out how much water a single coffee farm can use

I was reading a report from the University of California, Davis and it said a coffee farm in Brazil can use over 2,000 liters of water just to produce one kilogram of roasted beans. That's wild to me because everyone talks about the beans but not the resources. Has anyone else looked into the water footprint of their daily cup?

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sarah1981d ago

Wait, so @linda658 says it's mostly rain?

linda6581d ago

Whoa that's a big number for sure. But I gotta say, I read something else that said most of that water is rain that falls on the farm, not water taken from a tap or a river. It's not like they're draining a lake for every bag of beans. The way they count that water seems kind of off to me. Makes you wonder how they do the math on other crops too.