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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Water is, however the rain doesn’t always fall where it is needed and there is a very limited amount of freshwater available, in some instances the water to feed cattle or other farming uses comes from underground water supplies called aquifers which used water stored thousand of years ago. https://youtu.be/xbUfVLxYVcE

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