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Dude - check out the facts. Seemed unbelievable to me too that an A4 sheet of paper would take 10 liters to produce, so I had to google and look it up. I hope it's not true, because if it is, we've gotta stop using paper and go with soft copies/electronic wherever possible....

Usually typewriter or laser printer paper weighs 80 g/m2.

According to World-Watch, March/April 20008, it takes 10 liters to produce a single sheet of A4 paper weighing 80 g/m2.

You should check this out -
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5609

Matters of Scale - All Wet

Amount of water embodied in (required to produce) a slice of bread (liters) 40
An apple 70
A hamburger 2,400

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Amount embodied in a glass of wine 1
A glass of beer 75
A cup of coffee 140
A glass of milk 200

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Amount embodied in a sheet of A4 paper (210 x 297 mm) 10
In a cotton shirt 2,700
In an Indian-made Tata Motors Nano automobile 62,500
In a U.S.-made Chevrolet Malibu 1,934,500

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Amount required to produce one kilowatthour of electricity 71

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Typical consumption from one 10-minute shower 95
From a year’s worth of daily 10-minute showers 34,675

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Daily human water consumption requirement (from food and beverages) 2.7-3.7
Yearly human water consumption requirement 986-1,351

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SOURCES: Embodied water in products: www.waterfootprint.org. In electricity: Worldwatch calculation based on data from U.S. Geological Survey and the Energy Information Administration. Shower consumption: Worldwatch estimate. Human direct consumption: U.S. Institute of Medicine.

Yeah. It's an interesting info. But is it true? Because I seriously doubt it.

There ARE many ways we waste water, but 10L for ONE sheet is bordering on stupid. That's a whole river for what I find stored in my local copy/print store. Come on! User your brain a bit...