Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling

Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling by onlyrealcuzzo on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @04:25PM (#36409981)

A roma tomato is ~11 calories. Plants yield ~30 on average. They grow for ~75 days and need 1 gallon per 5 days = 1/2 gallon per ~11 calories.

Almonds are closer to 1 gallon per ~6 calories - or almost 4 times worse.

It's almost as if there's reason almonds are expensive and tomatoes and oranges and lemons and limes aren't.

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Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling by nightski on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @11:13AM (#36419544)

Almonds really aren't expensive on a per calorie basis. They are far cheaper than tomatoes. For example at Walmart as of today I can buy 2,240 calories of blue diamond almonds for $6.98. The cheapest Roma tomato is $0.44 per item, which is roughly 35 calories. I'd need to buy 64 tomatoes in that case, which would be a whopping $28.16. Something in your math does not add up.

From what I can gather a single tomato uses on average 3.3 gallons of water and a single almond is 1.1 gallons. That is 35 calories vs 7 calories. It comes out to 10 calories per gallon vs 6 calories per gallon which is not nearly as bad as your example. I'm not saying these numbers are 100% accurate, but I'm very skeptical it is 4 times as much water.

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