{"id":124287,"date":"2014-12-12T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/?p=124287"},"modified":"2015-06-01T13:24:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T17:24:15","slug":"incredible-amounts-of-water-needed-for-all-we-do-make-it-more-valuable-than-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/incredible-amounts-of-water-needed-for-all-we-do-make-it-more-valuable-than-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible amounts of water needed for all we do make it more valuable than oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian journalist <b>Stephen Leahy<\/b> chronicles his journey to understand how much water it takes to produce all the goods we use and consume &#8211; <b>5 1\/2 quarts<\/b> of water to produce <b>16 ounces<\/b> of bottled water; <b>40 gallons<\/b> of water to grow the grain to make two shots of single malt whiskey&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The result is his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflybooks.com\/index.php\/catalogue\/adult-books\/nature-and-science\/ecology\/product\/11060-your-water-footprint-the-shocking-facts-about-how-much-water-we-use-to-make-everyday-products\">recently published book,<\/a>, <b><i>Your Water Footprint: The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products<\/i><\/b>.   <\/p>\n<p>Read his article from <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sustainable-business\/2014\/dec\/08\/water-amounts-incredible-valuable-oil-scarcity\">The Guardian Sustainable Business.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian journalist Stephen Leahy chronicles his journey to understand how much water it takes to produce all the goods we use and consume &#8211; 5 1\/2 quarts of water to produce 16 ounces of bottled water; 40 gallons of water<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water","","tg-column-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128621,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124287\/revisions\/128621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}