
Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
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Cotton Is Taking Water Away From People
Cotton is grown in 75 different countries, and the conditions of growth very atically. A lot of times you'll see it presented as maybe cotton consumes ten thousand leters of water prepare of jeans and tea shirt. That's x amount of bath tubs or glasses of water per year. And of course, what we're directly implying is that cotton is taking water away from people.
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