Water Footprint Of Clothes. A pair of jeans requires more clothes than a shirt. Thanks to the sustainable trend people care more and more about the environment.
Yes it consumes more water. The water footprint measures the amount of water used to produce each of the goods and services we use. This amount of water represents all stages of production from raw material preparation to delivery.
Your water footprint is the amount of water you consume in your daily life including the water used to grow the food you eat to produce the energy you use and for all of the products in your daily life your books music house car furniture and the clothes you wear.
Yes it consumes more water. The use of chemicals used to turn raw materials into textiles and during the dyeing process end up in water streams causing further pollution and the same goes with the detergent used once clothes have been purchased and are washed at home. Dutchman arjen hoekstra the father of the water footprint concept estimates that about 2 900 litres of water are necessary to make a 250 g cotton t shirt. Each year textile companies discharge millions of gallons of chemically infected water into our waterways.
