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In these charts -- which were kindly produced 7 years ago out of a request and challenge that I gave to my friend and neighbor who is my State's Water Resources director -- you will notice that the livestock operations of meat, dairy, poultry and pork ranching and animal feeds (alfalfa, corn, grains) agriculture and their processing constitute in excess of 85% of the total water usage in all human activities that places demands upon my State's finite and fast diminishing water supplies!  This data also reflects the nation's and the world's equivalent foolish water uses disparity within a severe worsening of clean and adequate water supply problems!
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UTAH'S
WATER SUPPLY
Utah is the nation's second-driest state with 13 inches of average annual precipitation.

HOW MUCH:  MILLION ACRE FEET/YEAR 
water can be stored in Utah's surface reservoirs? -- 7.5
water do Utahns use annually? ----------------------------- 6.0

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF UTAH'S
WATER IS USED FOR:
agriculture and irrigation? --- 87.3%
public and domestic? ----------- 9.2%
commercial and industries? -- 3.5%

HOW MUCH WATER
DO WE USE?
GALLONS PER DAY

Taking a bath or shower - 15-30
(per 5 minutes)
Washing dishes ------------- 15-60
Washing clothes ---------------- 30
Cooking -----------------------------10
Drinking ----------------------------1/2
Toilets (per flush) -------------- 4-7
Washing the car ----------------100
Watering lawn and yard ---- 180
Dripping faucet -------------------  4
(1 drop per second)

WATER VOLUME OF SOME
UTAH LAKES AND RESERVOIRS
NORMAL CAPACITY/AF

Bear Lake ----------- 1,420,000
Utah Lake -------------- 850,000
Great Salt Lake
(at elv. 4200) ------ 15,370,140
Strawberry ---------- 1,107,000
Flaming Gorge ----- 3,789,000
Lake Powell ------- 28,000,000
Jordanelle -------------- 320,000                                Return to original
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WATER FACTS
There are approximately 326,000,000 cubic miles of water on earth, covering 70 percent of the earth's surface.

WHAT PERCENTAGE IS:
Oceans -------------- 97.24%
Polar ice, glacier --- 2.15%
Groundwater -------- 0.61%
Lakes ----------------- 0.017%
Soil -------------------- 0.005%
Atmosphere ------- 0.0001%
Rivers ------------- 0.00001%

HOW MUCH WATER DOES IT TAKE TO
PRODUCE ONE SERVING OF:

Corn --------------------- 61
Lettuce ------------------- 6
Apples ------------------- 16
Tomatoes ---------------- 3
Oranges ---------------- 22
Watermelon ---------- 100
Potatoes --------------- 6.5
Wheatbread ------------15
Milk ------------------------ 65
Cola soft drink -------- 10
Steak ----------------- 2,607
Pork --------------------- 408
Chicken ---------------- 408
Eggs (2) ---------------- 136
Typical breakfast --- 209
Typical lunch -------1,427
Typical dinner ----- 2,897
-- GALLONS (per avg Serving)

ACRE-FOOT:
One acre-foot equals approximately 326,000 gallons, enough to fill a football field to a depth of one foot or to supply the water needs of an average family of five for a year.
STATE OF UTAH . NATURAL RESOURCES . Division of Water Resources  (this broucher)
1636 West North Temple #310, Salt Lake City, UT 84116-3156
(801) 538-7299
Printed an recyded paper using vegetable oil base inks. Rev. 8/95   Return to original
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So if you want to save enormous amounts of water -- to free it up for more beneficial needs and purposes -- stop demanding and consuming high-water-use-requiring animal products!  The environment and planet will be healthier! -- and so will be your children and you!
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The amount of water saved by giving up just one hamburger is the same (approx. 2,600 gal) as the water saved by changing out an older 5 gal flush toilet with the new low water (now legally required in our state) 1.4 gal flush toilet -- if you flushed it twice a day for an entire year!
That is: 5 gal - 1.4 gal = 3.6 gal x 365 days x 2 (twice a day) = 2,628 gal! the close equivalent quantity of water used to produce one fatty health and environment hurting hamburger!
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One hamburger is also the water equivalent used to grow more than a year and two months, twice a day servings worth of tomatoes! Over 6 months worth of potatoes or lettuce! 3 months worth of Bread or Apples! Or 2 months worth of oranges or its wonderful juices! 

One hamburger is the water equivalent used to produce a full week's worth (i.e. 7 days, three times a day, of breakfast, lunch and dinner) of nutritionally complete, fully healthy, delicious meals (with a much greater variety) -- and with much less expense! -- in the less than 125 gal needed to grow and prepare the average meal within a true 100% Vegetation (Vegan)
 -- that is, a wholly plant based diet!
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The State, the Nation, and the whole world would be greener, more pleasant; and her humanity would be more easily provided with water and fed -- with bounty and good health --

also the need for the production of fertilizer with its fluoride waste product 
problem would be drastically reduced!

 -- if all ate directly from the garden! 
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You do the math! -- Prove it for yourself! Then make the right choices for your own health, your children's health and the health of the environment! Our State, our Nation and our World! -- Do it for all Humanity's future, as well as your own!  (tlr-7/4/02)
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