It only took Accel Partners eight weeks to close over a billion dollars in fresh capital.

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Last year, drillers in the U.S. used 40 billion gallons of fresh water to frack.

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The United Nations predicts that by 2025, forty-eight nations with a combined population of 2.8 billion will face fresh water stress or scarcity, according to Water.org.

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The company said for the first time it had "achieved the milestone" of producing over one billion plastic cartons of fresh milk.

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The company last year announced plans to spend 1 billion pounds to add more staff, particularly in fresh food departments, and improve the customer experience.

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There are 6.9 billion people on the planet, and about half of them have no access to fresh water on a daily basis.

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An estimated 8.9 billion animals a year are raised in confinement where cramped conditions, a lack of exercise (or fresh air), and high stress environment necessitate the use of antibiotics.

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Food and Agriculture Organization based in Rome, over 50 billion vertebrates are consumed by humans every year, a number that does not account for fish or marine and fresh-water invertebrates, or for biomedical victims of experimentation, from dogs to hamsters to rats and mice.

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