Water Conservation

choi

(1) Tara Moore, Beating the Coming Water Shortage, in The chartist of By the Numbers section, Fortune, Oct 17, 2011.
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2 ... .fortune/index.html

My omment: In the print edition, this web page continued smoothly to "Water needed to produce everyday items" which appears at the bottom of the online text. Water needed to produce a pound of chicken is a fourth of that for the same amout of beef. A pair of jeans needs 2,906 gallons of water (but the print edition had a footnote that said most of that water went to grow cotton).

(2) Leslie Kaufman, Stone-Washed Blue Jeans (Minus the Washed)/ New York Times, Nov 2, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/0 ... %20water&st=cse

Quote:

To customers seeking further advice, Levi Strauss suggests washing jeans rarely, if at all — the theory being that putting them in the freezer will kill germs that cause them to smell.

"cotton, the world’s biggest nonfood crop.

Note:
(a) For "spa-sized bathtub," see bathtub
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub
(Whirlpool tubs first became popular in America during the 1960s and 70s. A spa or hot tub is also called a "jacuzzi" since the word became a generic after plumbing component manufacturer Jacuzzi introduced the "Spa Whirlpool" in 1968)