In December of last year, the newspaper La Voz de Galicia published the following: the water consumption in Spain exceeds the resources available in Spanish river basins. A few resources that are also reduced because of climate change and global warming. So much that an average of 5% has been reduced in the last two decades of the Spanish River. Notes it as well the Observatory of sustainability in Spain (OSE) in its report of the water in 2008. To mitigate this loss advocates an active policy and a new culture of water that advocates reducing consumption and by the comprehensive maintenance of ecosystems. The water consumption of a European citizen assumes an average of 125 litres a day. This amount considers only the water used for body hygiene, food and drink. According to new studies of the German National Association of protection of the Bundes Naturschutz landscape and Adena, the aforementioned amount is a pure illusion, since nobody accounted for example, water that has been used in a normal breakfast, that is they may have come to invest 365 litres of water, i.e., as many as days has a year: 90 liters in the cheese sandwich, 135 in an egg and 140 in a cup for you.
The worst example is the meat: to produce 1 Kg of meat. need 10,000 liters of water, 10 times more to 1 kg. of cereals. This happens in a world in which 864 million people do not have access to drinking water and 2,600 million suffer from lack of sanitary facilities. Each, without waiting for the solution to come from the politicians, can help reduce the high consumption of water, for example reducing meat consumption, or perhaps resigning completely to it. Original author and source of the article.