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Re:Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry by heisenbit on Monday September 16, 2019 @06:36PM (#20989246)
How anyone spending a few mental cycles can believe the bottled water industry is anything but a rounding error of the agricultural industry is beyond me. But I guess that is the point: Distraction.
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Re:Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry by creato on Monday September 16, 2019 @07:12PM (#20989488)
You're kidding right? I would expect all drinking water combined to be a rounding error next to agriculture, and bottled water is a subset of that.
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Re:Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry by ac29 on Monday September 16, 2019 @07:55PM (#20989732)
In Florida, drinking water [0] uses approximately as much water as agriculture [1]. By far the biggest use of water in Florida is "thermoelectric power" (burning things to generate steam, presumably), which is more than domestic and irrigation combined.

[0] There is no distinction between potable water that is ingested as opposed to used for showering and washing dishes, though.

[1] https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2018/3035/fs20183035.pdf

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