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Sources: Water Footprint Calculator

Food

Water Footprint Network, Product Gallery
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization–International Hydrological Programme (UNESCO–IHP). “Water footprints of nations, Volume 1 : Main Report”, Value of Water Research Series No. 16 (2004)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAOSTAT), 2003 Food Balance Sheets

Energy

U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2000

Indoor

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), EnergyStar program
EPA, WaterSense program
Aquacraft, Inc. and American Water Works Association Research Foundation, Residential Water Use Summary

Outdoor

University of Illinois Extension “Tips for Water Conservation”
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, “Efficient Use of Water in the Garden and Landscape, Lawns”

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Water Footprint Calculator

The Water Footprint Calculator (WFC) offers a few questions to get you and your household to start thinking about your water use and how it connects to almost every aspect of your life.

How To Save Water

Here are tips to help you shrink your water footprint. The recommendations on this list are just a start in an effort to save more water.

Water Footprints

Learn more about Water Footprints and its role in revealing all the water "hidden" in what you buy and use everyday.

Water Footprint - Concepts and Definitions

Learn more about the concepts behind water footprints, direct and virtual water use and water accounting.

Water Program

GRACE's official landing page for the Water Program. Learn about how water is used and what can be done to conserve and protect it.

Nexus Food Water and Energy

Food, water and energy -- they may not seem like they are connected but the systems that help produce and bring fresh food and energy as well as clean, abundant water to you, are intertwined.

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Quick Facts

The US imports about half of oil consumed.
Health care costs associated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria rise by an estimated $4 billion dollars each year.
Only.007% of all water on earth is accessible for direct human use.
The US's electricity generation fuel mix is Coal 45%, Natural Gas 24%, Nuclear 20%, Hydropower 6%, Other Renewable 4%, Petroleum 1%.
Genetically engineered soybeans, corn and cotton in the US make up 93%, 88% and 94% of the total acreage of each respective crop.
On average, each American flushes 18.5 gal. of water down the toilet every day. More than any other uses like taking showers or washing dishes.
Cooling water discharged from a coal or nuclear plant is hotter--by an average of 17°F in summer--than when it entered the plant.
Irradiation destroys niacin and vitamins in eggs, including up to 24% of vitamin A at one-third the FDA approved radiation level.
The majority of oil the US oil imports are from Canada (24%), Mexico (9%), Saudi Arabia (12%), Nigeria (11%) and Venezuela (10%).
The average cheese pizza has a water footprint of 333 gallons.
$ of a gal. of gas includes: cost of Crude Oil 76%; Refining Costs and Profits 6%; Distribution, Marketing, and Retail Costs and Profits 6%; Taxes 12%
It takes 660 gallons of water to produce one hamburger.
The United States led the world with $48.1 billion in clean energy investments in 2011.
A typical chocolate bar has a water footprint of 449 gallons.
An estimated 48 million incidents of foodborne illness occur annually in the US, most frequently from poultry, beef, and fish.

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