Person Drinks: Water and Cooking Cleaning

person drinks: Every drop counts "We spend about 110 liters of water on domestic use, including showering, cooking and cleaning, according to Global Times China. But we 'eat' water, we 'wear' water and we need water to 'start' our devices," said Jelena Milenkovic, Shanghai operations manager of Thirst, an education-focused NGO. The group, which was founded by Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum in 2011 in China and uses statistics from the Water Footprint Network to calculate the quantity of water consumed in people daily activities. But the audience at the launch of the "Treat Without Meat" campaign last week were told that that not true, because water is consumed not only when a person drinks, showers or does the laundry, but also when he or she eats, wears a pair of jeans or even just uses a computer. According to the network website, the water footprint measures the amount of water consumed, including what goes into producing each of the goods and services people use. One pound of wheat needs 500 liters of water, and 500 grams of cheese needs 2,500 liters of water, but one beef steak already consumes 4,500 liters of water, because water is consumed when the cows drink, in the grains for feeding the cows, and during meat processing. Milenkovic said that a pair of jeans consumes 11,000 liters of water. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.