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by lost-found 1692 days ago
Article discusses the high water requirements of growing avocados then goes on to talk about replacing them with pistachios—as if that a more sustainable solution. One kilogram of pistachios takes over 11,300 liters of water to grow. (https://healabel.com/p-ingredients/pistachios)

The average avocado is 150g but even if we were being extremely conservative and said 10 avocados = one kilogram you’d still be at less than 1/3rd the water requirements of pistachios: 3,200 liters vs 11,360.

What we really need to figure out is how to capture the wasted water from plants. About 98% of water used on plants is lost to transpiration: https://cid-inc.com/blog/transpiration-in-plants-its-importa...