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Re:Average water use per person*day by country by sgk284 on Sunday February 02, 2014 @03:08PM (#7167342)
Every square meter of Spain could be farmland and the United States would still have 3.5x as much farmland (that is, Spain's total landarea is less than a third of the United State's cropland).

As it stands, the United States has about an order of magnitude more cropland than Spain[1].

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=farmland+in+united+stat...

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Re:Average water use per person*day by country by kalleboo on Sunday February 02, 2014 @03:36PM (#7167478)
You'd need to look at farmland per capita to interpret the original numbers, not just total farmland.
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Re:Average water use per person*day by country by sgk284 on Sunday February 02, 2014 @04:10PM (#7167597)
Not sure that's fair if the United States is exporting a larger percentage of it's agriculture (as in, that water is indirectly being consumed by other nations). So we'd need to account for who exports / imports from each nation.

Regardless, the United States has 1.4x as much cropland per capita, which already accounts for a good portion of the 1.8x increase in water usage per capita.

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