On Thursday, November 22, 2018 at 11:00:22 AM UTC-5, graham wrote:
> A US woman on the CBC this morning pointed out that bottled water is 96%
> water and 4% plastic. Lettuce is 96% water and 4% cellulose etc.
> Therefore, not only are square miles of good agricultural land being
> wasted but also all that fuel used to transport "water" across the
> country in refrigerated containers.

Water is available everywhere. No point in transporting it.
Lettuce doesn't grow everywhere all year. Makes sense to move
it from where it grows to where people want it.

Until we've built enough greenhouses to grow the 8 million pounds
of lettuce that currently is grown in the Southwest.

Cindy Hamilton