@crystalzenith

I was wondering about that. Not sure what the breakdown is between feed for livestock vs veggies, fruit, nuts, etc.

@GaryRLundberg @crystalzenith

Our World in Data has good data about this, although it's not specific to the Colorado River. Nuts do need a lot of freshwater to grow, but have a very low carbon footprint, land use footprint, and eutrophying emissions footprint.

Animal products, especially cow/lamb meat, and dairy have a very high environmental footprint in all categories (and prawns in all categories except land use), whereas peas and pulses have one of the lowest footprints in all categories.

@GaryRLundberg @crystalzenith

Data for water use:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/water-per-protein-poore

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/freshwater-withdrawals-per-1000kcal

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/water-withdrawals-per-kg-poore

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/scarcity-water-protein-poore

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/scarcity-water-use-kcals

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/scarcity-water-per-kg-poore

@GaryRLundberg @crystalzenith

Data for land use:

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/land-use-protein-poore

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/land-use-per-kg-poore

Data for carbon emissions:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-per-protein-poore

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-kcal-poore

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-per-kg-poore

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-opportunity-costs-per-kilogram-of-food

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-emissions-supply-chain

Data for eutrophying emissions:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/eutrophying-emissions-protein

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/eutrophying-emissions-kcal

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/eutrophying-emissions-per-kg-poore