Re: [ECOLOG-L] water use in making chocolate.

2016-04-05 Thread Michael Marsh
Jorge, I was interested in the posting that you are responding to, not only as a chocolate consumer but because of my experience as a young kid. I grew up in Panama and Honduras, the son of an employee of the United Fruit Company. The company had small-scale cacao production for a time in the

[ECOLOG-L] Water use in making? chocolate

2016-04-02 Thread Jorge A. Santiago-Blay
Dear Ecolog-Listers: Recently, as I was teaching about water conservation and use by different human activities. As I was reviewing, I came across a graph that depicts chocolate as a *huge* user of water. I assumed that it is the manufacturing of chocolate (in contrast to watering cacao plants)