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r00fus on July 25, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: In the US, wells being drilled ever deeper as grou...

I heard meat/milk production uses a significantly larger amount of water (in addition to the crops eaten by the animals).

lostlogin on July 25, 2019 [–]

It’s the waste from cattle that’s a bigger problem. And areas with little rainfall seem to be particularly bad at handling all the excess nitrogen.

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