Food to Eat, Feed Animals Single Largest Use of Water, Film Says

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Growing food to consume and to feed animals that people eat is the largest use of Earth’s fresh water supply yet almost a third of the world’s food is lost or wasted before it reaches consumers’ mouths, according to a short film launched at World Water Week in Stockholm.

Taste the Waste of Water” by Germany’s Valentin Thurn was shown at the Stockholm event, which is focused this year on how to use less water to feed the planet and wraps up tomorrow.