AR-News: Report Warns of Water Usage-Feeding Link

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Yahoo! News - Report Warns of Water Usage-Feeding LinkReport Warns of Water Usage-Feeding Link

By MATT MOORE, Associated Press Writer 

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A report released Tuesday warned that if more is not done to reduce the amount of water used to produce food, the effort to reduce the number of the world's malnourished people would be jeopardized. 

.............It takes 145 gallons of water to produce enough flour for one loaf of bread, a fraction of the 1,849 gallons used to produce 3 1/2 ounces of beef..........


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040420/ap_on_he_me/sweden_water_study 
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