But the hose ban aims to reduce the quantity of water consumed while maintaining a cap on the price.
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For the duration of the Plastiki expedition I urge you to remember your re-useable water bottle, this alone will help to reduce the 200 billion liters of bottled water consumed each year.
Groundwater is the source for nearly half of all drinking water in the world and around 43% of all water effectively consumed in irrigation.
Very short sleepers drank less tap water and consumed fewer total carbohydrates and lycopene, found in red and orange-colored fruits and vegetables and high in cancer-fighting antioxidants, than people with other sleep patterns.
Farmers, especially cotton and rice growers in those upstream states, account for 83% of the basin's consumed water.
The board has said notices will be issued when it is considered the water can be consumed safely without being boiled.
The Japanese government, for all its failures, did the right thing in evacuating Fukushima Prefecture quickly and by preventing contaminated food and water from being consumed.
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The International Bottled Water Association says that in the top 10 global markets alone, people consumed more than 61 billion gallons of bottled water in 2011.
In three hours I consumed: eight glasses of water, two cans of Coke Zero, a large strawberry and protein powder smoothie, and a 20 oz. bottle of Gatorade.
Contamination in food and water will be detected, and they will not be consumed.
Since not all goods consumed in one particular country are produced in that country, the water footprint consists of two parts: use of domestic water resources and use of water outside the borders of the country.
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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