Water
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I bet you didn't know, it takes about 5 pints of
water
to make a pint of beer.
If you include all the drain, it takes more than a hundred pints of
water
to make a pint of beer.
Now the brewers in Montana have already done a lot to reduce their
water
consumption, but they still use millions of gallons of
water.
I mean, there's
water
in beer.
So what can they do about this remaining
water
footprint that can have serious effects on the ecosystem?
After all, there's a strong correlation between
water
and fishing, and for some, there's a strong correlation between fishing and beer.
So how can they address this remaining
water
footprint?
Up until now, business
water
stewardship has been limited to measuring and reducing, and we're suggesting that the next step is to restore.
You've got a disincentive to conserve, because if you don't use your
water
right, you risk losing your
water
right.
In some states, senior
water
rights holders can leave their
water
in the stream while legally protecting it from others, and maintaining their
water
right.
After all, it is their
water
right, and if they want to use that
water
right to help the fish grow in the stream, it's their right to do so.
So, working with local
water
trusts, we created an incentive to do so.
We pay them to leave their
water
in stream.
This individual has made the choice and is closing this
water
diversion, leaving the
water
in the stream.
He doesn't lose the
water
right, he just chooses to apply that right, or some portion of it, to the stream, instead of to the land.
Because he's the senior water-rights holder, he can protect the
water
from other users in the stream.
He gets paid to leave the
water
in the stream.
This guy's measuring the
water
that this leaves in the stream.
We then take the measured water, we divide it into thousand-gallon increments.
Each increment gets a serial number and a certificate, and then the brewers and others buy those certificates as a way to return
water
to these degraded ecosystems.
The brewers pay to restore
water
to the stream.
It provides a simple, inexpensive and measurable way to return
water
to these degraded ecosystems, while giving farmers an economic choice and giving businesses concerned about their
water
footprints an easy way to deal with them.
It's about giving folks concerned about their
water
footprints a real opportunity to put
water
where it's critically needed, into these degraded ecosystems, while at the same time providing farmers a meaningful economic choice about how their
water
is used.
We've returned more than four billion gallons of
water
to degraded ecosystems.
We've connected senior water-rights holders with brewers in Montana, with hotels and tea companies in Oregon, and with high-tech companies that use a lot of
water
in the Southwest.
The
water
was cleaned, but because they got a lot of batteries, they were able to store a lot of electricity.
Do you know, we're bringing little babies into a world where, in many places, the
water
is poisoning them?
"The supreme goodness is like
water.
If we think about
water
flowing in a river, it is always staying low.
But without
water'
s humble contribution, life as we know it may not exist.
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