How much water does it take to produce 1 litre of mineral water?
It is difficult to calculate these figures precisely but it is very small. There is roughly a 0.5% per cent spillage on top of the volume we produce. Waste water is used to irrigate local vegetable gardens. Wine can use up to 270 litres of water per bottle, according to the Department Natural Resource Science at the University of Adelaide. Beer uses nearer to 100 litres of water per bottle. 1kg of beef uses about 50,000 litres of water. A kilo of rice uses 2,500 litres, wheat about 700 litres. 5. Why hasn’t water been produced in Daylesford/Hepburn Springs since the 1980s? Swiss Italians who came to Daylesford in the 1850s and 60s as merchants first realised the value of the mineral springs but it stopped in the 1980s. Mining in the area caused the springs to fail. The locals formed a collective and campaigned against mines after which mining was made illegal.The waters returned and the locals started bottling mineral water for commercial sale to Melbourne the late 1860s. The Hepburn M
