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Article: Industry reduces water consumption: making money like water?(water management)
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- Food Engineering & Ingredients
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Saving water is in, owing to the global shortage of fresh water and the rising water prices. The key question is, however: does it yield any profit? For simple adjustments that allow water to be used more 'intensively', the answer is yes. But extensive purification often proves to be a bridge too far. The question is: what is the core business of food producers: food production or water management?
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Most food companies use between one and seven litres of water per kilogram product. Notably cooling, heating, washing and rinsing require relatively much water. Given this water consumption, and a drinking water price in western Europe of 0.1 to 0.4 ...