What Do You Know About
Virtual Water?
Test your knowledge about virtual water, the water you didn't know you were using.
Everyone knows we use water for drinking and washing. But did you know that all the food we eat and products we buy take water to grow and manufacture? The water it takes to grow an apple or make a t-shirt is called virtual water. While you can't avoid using it, this quiz shows you where there is virtual water.
Which beverage takes the most water to produce, including water used to grow and process the plants?

a cup of coffee

a cup of tea

a glass of orange juice
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coffee, CC0 public domain; tea, CC0 public domain; orange juice, CC0 public domain; wheat, CC0 public domain; corn, Bill Ebbesen/CC BY-SA 3.0; rice, CC0 public domain; chips, oranges, apples, fast food, © Ico Romero/AMNH; pork, CC0 public domain; chicken, CC0 Creative Commons, beef, CC0 Creative Commons, microchip, CC0 public domain; t-shirt, Thor/CC BY 2.0; paper, CC0 Creative Commons; energy saving light, Sun Ladder~commonswiki/CC BY-SA 3.0; incandescent light, CC0 License; sunlight, CC0 Public Domain