--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > It takes 140 litres of water to produce one cup of coffee. > > > > > > No wonder I always have to pee after I drink a cup > > > of coffee! > > > > I got this info from an article on the world's water from the > > recent "New Yorker". Fascinating article and most of it > > concentrates on India and how public policy encourages water- > > waste by Indian farmers. > > So I get that coffee plants are thirsty, but are they > encouraging Indian farmers to grow coffee there? When > I think coffee, I think of the countries it's usually > from, which are all rainforest nations that do not > exactly have a problem with water scarcity. I don't > really see a lot of Bombay Blend on the shelves next > to the other coffees. >
sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the entire article was about India. No, the coffee referred to is throughout the world. India's problem is rice which the government encourages farmers to grow...but rice is also a high-water plant. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
