Biofuel’s Heavy Water Footprint Threatens Regional Water Supplies - Blue Living Ideas

Biofuel’s Heavy Water Footprint Threatens Regional Water Supplies

Posted on Apr 30, 2009 by Jennifer Lance.

Biofuels, especially ethanol, have come under criticism for raising the price of food and contributing to the overuse of antibiotics; however, there is a new concern that biofuel production is negatively impacting regional water supplies. A recent study in the journal Environmental Science & Technology reports that to produce a gallon of ethanol in some regions of the US it takes as much as 2,100 gallons of water from farm to fuel pump.
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