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So if you happen to be in an area currently suffering a water shortage, I can sort of see where the neighbors are coming from
Of course, if you're not in an area with a local water shortage, it may just be that your neighbors are just petty busybodies who need to be ignored, or slapped.
Rain water harvesting is also being much talked about for the last couple of years.
Once I had neighbors complain to me about bathing my dog...once a week.
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Bert Bates wrote:
One pound of beef takes about 2000-3000 gallons of water to produce (a pound of chicken takes about 800 gallons, a pound of wheat about 25 gallons).
John Smith wrote:
Bert Bates wrote:
One pound of beef takes about 2000-3000 gallons of water to produce (a pound of chicken takes about 800 gallons, a pound of wheat about 25 gallons).
Can you include a link to where this information is coming from? An average cow weight is around 1,000 pounds, which means that it takes between 2 and 3 million gallons of water? This seems like a gross overestimation.
John Smith wrote:
Can you include a link to where this information is coming from? An average cow weight is around 1,000 pounds, which means that it takes between 2 and 3 million gallons of water? This seems like a gross overestimation.
Henry Wong wrote:
I just did a quick google, and the first link estimated it at 2500 gallons / per pound. Of course, the beef industry has a different estimate -- something under 500 gallons per pound.
John Smith wrote:
According to my calcs, lake Michigan holds about 1.3*10^15 gallons of water, and there are 100 million cows in the US. At the rate of 2,500 gallons per pound of beef, it took about 20% of the entire lake Michigan water to raise the damned cows?
Bert Bates wrote:I've got about a 1.5 acre lawn / pasture that I'd like to keep green for my horses to munch on. So far this little pasture gives them about 1/2 of their nutrition, the rest comes from the hay we feed them.
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Bert Bates wrote:Our neighbors say, and there is some truth to their logic, that all of the neighborhood's wells are, to a degree, connected. It's almost certainly true that we share parts of the same watershed, but my non-trivial amount of research indicates that I'm not going to adversely affect my direct neighborhood's water table.
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But when you water the grass, what happens to the water? I would think that some evaporates, some stays with the grass and the rest seeps back into the group and eventually the water table/well. If this is true, does a lot of it go back? In other words, are you using the same water repeated?
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Tanmoy Dhara wrote: @ Jeanne,
I live in India.Some days ago, a survey conducted by govt. revealed that the water level is plummeting rapidly because of extravagant use of water for irrigation.So, i don't think it happens like that.
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