Leather

Global average water footprint: 16600 litres for 1 kg of leather.

The water footprint of leather highly depends upon the kind of animal it is produced from.
For the tanned leather from a bovine cow it costs about 16000 cubic meters of water per ton of leather.
Besides hide and skin an animal also produces other products such as milk, meat and bones etc.
The volume of water consumed during the entire life span of the cow is thus attributed to these products based on their relative market values and quantity obtained per animal.