Assuming this is, at least in part, water that's used for things like cooling pl...

onion2k on April 5, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dominions of fizz: the carbonated-drinks industry ...

Assuming this is, at least in part, water that's used for things like cooling plastics when bottles are made or rinsing machines to clean them, that number would be a simple calculation of the amount of water used per litre without taking in to account the fact that a lot of the the water in the system is recycled. A manufacturer could use the same 340 litres to make 1,000,000 litres of soft drinks, right?

eterm on April 5, 2016 [–]

Yes, it would be more helpful to have a breakdown of how much of that is service water and how much is potable water.