Sugar

Global average water footprint: 1500 litres of water for 1 kg of cane sugar.

Sugar can be produced from different crops, such as sugar cane or sugar beet. We consider here the case of sugar cane. It takes about 175 litres of water to produce 1 kg of sugar cane. About 11% of the sugar cane is sugar, so that 1 kg of sugar cane gives 0.11 kg of sugar. Hence, for 1 kg of refined sugar we did require about 1500 litres of water.

Sugar cane consumes about 220 billion cubic meters of water annually, which is 3.4 % of the global water use for crop production.

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