'Food For Thought' By Eliza Barclay

When food is wasted water is wasted. The amount of food that gets wasted everyday worldwide is incredibly high. There

are people all over the world suffer from lack of water and food, while many people have wasted food for a variety

of reasons.

Within the article titled "Food for Thought" Eliza Barclay discusses water waste worldwide and suggests ways to fix it. She stated, "According to the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank, inside the 1.3 billion tons of food wasted every year worldwide is 45 trillion gallons of water. This represents a staggering 24 percent of all water used for agriculture".

Eliza suggested ways for farmers to save food, she says, "In the developing world, farmers struggle with food loss long before

it gets to the consumer but greater access to simple equipment, like silos for airtight food storage and crates for delicate fruits and vegetables, would help a lot, WRI says". Also there are ways for wealthier to save water. Eliza added, "In rich countries, by contrast, most food waste happens further along the food distribution chain - in homes and restaurants, for example. We need to do a better job of redistributing food we can't eat, and serving and ordering smaller portions, according to the report".

Kyle Rabins article was researched on the amount of water wasted within food in The United States. He focused mainly on New York. Like Eliza's article, he showed the problems with wasting food but also suggested ways to lower the food waste. He stated, "Cognizant of the fact that food waste comprises one-third of New York City's more than 20,000 tons of daily refuse, Mayor Mike Bloomberg also recently announced that more than 100 restaurants will participate in the first-ever Food Waste Challenge, a new city government program to reduce the amount of organic waste sent to landfills".

In conclusion there is a huge problem with food waste. By participating in a food waste challenge suggested by Mike Bloomberg we can be saving a lot more food. People can save food by ordering smaller meals, and for farmers by preserving food with better equipment. There is water in the food you throw away so when you waste food it is also wasting water. Therefore if we all work to save food, we will be saving water as well.