Statistics on WATER

80% of irrigation water goes to 17 Western states whose climate is too dry and soil make-up inappropriate to be used for growing the crops.

Water used to produce 1 lb. of:

Lettuce – 23 gal. Tomatoes – 23gal. Potatoes – 24 gal.

Wheat – 25 gal. Carrots – 33 gal. Chicken – 815 gal.

Beef – 5,214 gal.

To process a 1,000 lb steer = enough water to float a battleship

1,000 quarts of water are used to produce one quart of orange juice.

Ogallala aquifer provides 30% of the total U.S. groundwater for irrigation…which is left from melted glaciers.

This aquifer is going down 3-10 ft. per year (13 trilllion gal.)

80% of the grain grown is grown to fatten cattle.

Information provided by:   Sr. Mariellen Phelps, OP