What does it mean when they say a burger uses 1300 gallons of water to make? Isn’t water renewable?

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I saw an ad for being vegan saying either don’t flush your toilet for 6 months, don’t shower for 3 months or don’t eat a burger once. But isn’t all of our water basically renewable and no matter if we do any of these things, it just goes back into the water cycle and we’ll reuse it eventually, even if we have to clean it somehow? What’s the big deal?

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Like others have mentioned water is renewable but also limited in how fast the natural water cycle renew enough fresh clean water for human consumption.

Also due to climate change, some regions are starting to get less rain and causing drought and water rationing to cities.

You can Google “clean water crisis” to read more about it.

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