The water footprint of tea

photo credit: Katie@!

I was observing a conversation on Twitter between Pete Quily and Jonathon Narvey on coffee consumption and I was reminded of my blog entry on water footprint and coffee. The sad part (as I am a coffee drinker myself) is that on average, the water footprint calculation yields 140 litres being used for coffee production. Another sad thing is that even for a cup of tea, we still consume 34 litres.

Many thanks to Glenn Gaetz for the link to this article. Very much appreciated. Now, if I could only sway myself away from tea AND coffee!