Eating healthy diet may help conserve water: Study

Shifting to a healthy diet may not only boost your wellbeing, but also save a lot of precious fresh water, according to a study.

The study, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, found that compared to existing diets, the water required to produce our food could be reduced by between 11 per cent and 35 per cent for healthy diets containing meat.

The water required could be reduced by 33 per cent and 55 per cent for healthy pescetarian (fish) diets and 35 per cent and 55 per cent for healthy vegetarian diets, said scientists from the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC).

They compared these three diet patterns, defined by respective national dietary guidelines, to the current actual food consumption, using available data from more than 43 thousand areas in France, the UK and Germany.

The team found that eating more healthily could substantially reduce the water footprint of people's diets, consistent across all the geographical entities analysed in the study.Read Complete Article