I got that number from here - tried to find a more 'official' source, but water isn't as well documented as energy.
Note that those numbers when I last looked into it typically include industrial and agricultural water use - residential water consumption is usually approximately 15% of total water use, so that fits reasonably.
One problem is that in many countries, water consumers (e.g. farmers) are able to withdraw water from their own soil, and so nobody really knows how much water that is, although it's possible to make educated guesses.
Are they taking into consideration the water it takes to produce the food that you eat in that 1100 gpd figure? Also, the amount of water that you use to shower/wash dishes/flush/water your lawn?
1. Those numbers are from all the rain hitting the pasture divided by by the cows mass (that is eatable)
1.a including whatever it eats
2. The way it's told makes it seem that none of the water is reused which is not true
Though beef is a water intensive 'crop' it is not as bad as certain people makes it out to be.
Note that those numbers when I last looked into it typically include industrial and agricultural water use - residential water consumption is usually approximately 15% of total water use, so that fits reasonably.
One problem is that in many countries, water consumers (e.g. farmers) are able to withdraw water from their own soil, and so nobody really knows how much water that is, although it's possible to make educated guesses.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/263156/water-consumption...