Fun Golf Facts
Amount of water it would take, per day, to support 4.7 billion people at the UN daily minimum:
2.5 billion gallons
Amount of water used, per day, to irrigate the world’s golf courses:
2.5 billion gallons
Average amount of pesticides used per acre, per year, on golf courses:
18.0 pounds
Average amount of pesticides used, per acre, per year, in agriculture:
2.7 pounds
(via WorldWatch Institute’s Matters of Scale (March/April 2004))
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