Cheese


Global average water footprint: 5000 litres of water for 1 kg of cheese.

To produce 1 kilogram of cheese we need 10 litres of milk.
The volume of water required to produce this milk is 10000 litres.

Processing 10 litres of milk also produces 7.3 litres of whey, which generates more or less the same market value as the cheese.
Hence, the volume of water to produce 10 litres of milk gets divided into cheese and whey more or less equally.

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