{"id":104,"date":"2008-04-19T23:54:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T06:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2008-04-19T23:55:45","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T06:55:45","slug":"peak-water-developmentsour-water-footprints-see-old-water-shed-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/19\/peak-water-developmentsour-water-footprints-see-old-water-shed-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak water developments&#8230;.Our water footprints; see old Water Shed idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px\">How much Virtual Water is in your shirt?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virtual_water\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial; color: #ff3706\" target=\"new\">Virtual Water<\/a> \u00a0is a measure of all the water it takes to make the products you use. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waterfootprint.org\/?page=files\/productgallery&amp;product=cotton\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial; color: #ff3706\" target=\"new\">Waterfootprint.org<\/a>calculates that a new cotton shirt uses 2,700 liters. That's a tally of the water evaporated in irrigating and growing the cotton, and the water needed to wash away the fertilizers and dilute the chemicals used in the manufacturing process. With worldwide water shortages \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2003-01-26-water-usat_x.htm\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #ff3706; font-family: Arial\" target=\"new\">set to become a major humanitarian crisis<\/a> \u00a0this century, water waste is a serious new sin. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/18\/the-post-materialist-ethical-consumerisms-next-wave\/#more-733\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #ff3706; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px\" class=\"more-link\">Read More\"\u00a6<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much Virtual Water is in your shirt? Virtual Water \u00a0is a measure of all the water it takes to make the products you use. \u00a0Waterfootprint.orgcalculates that a new cotton shirt uses 2,700 liters. That's a tally of the water evaporated in irrigating and growing the cotton, and the water needed to wash away the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/19\/peak-water-developmentsour-water-footprints-see-old-water-shed-idea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Peak water developments&#8230;.Our water footprints; see old Water Shed idea\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[96,30,36,78,102,71,124,55,93,56,7,136,26,120,112],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-artificial-fertilizer","tag-economics","tag-future","tag-gaia","tag-inflation","tag-national-security-state","tag-open-source-culture","tag-peak-energy","tag-peak-food","tag-peak-minerals","tag-peak-oil","tag-peak-water","tag-politics","tag-six-degrees","tag-social-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}