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“Americans use twice the amount of water they think they do, and appear to be particularly oblivious about how much H2O they flush down the toilet on a daily basis, according to new research. In a paper published online Monday in the journal PNAS, a researcher concluded that Americans underestimated their water use by a factor of 2, and were only slightly aware of how much water goes into growing the food they eat … ” By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times
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Tagged as Indiana University, Los Angeles Times, Monte Morin, PNAS, Shahzeen Attari, United States, United States Environmental Protection Agency
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