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Guardian: As consumers throw millions of tonnes of uneaten food into the bin each year, few give a thought to the hidden cost of such waste – the water that it took to grow the food.
But new research shows that we throw away, on average, twice as much water per year in the form of uneaten food as we use for washing and drinking.
What is worse, increasing amounts of our food comes from countries where water is scarce, meaning the food we discard has a huge hidden impact on the depletion of valuable water......
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United Kingdom: Throwing food away sends world’s scarce water gushing down the plughole
Posted by Guardian: Fiona Harvey, on March 22nd, 2011
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