Step 8.
Lower your water footprint
It can take more than 20,000 litres of water to produce 1kg of cotton, = equivalent to a single T-shirt and a pair of jeans.
We chose to work in a region (Ahmadabad in India)that receives up to 95% of its water from the monsoon rain.
This was an important consideration for us, as the monsoon rain reduces the need for large-scale irrigation projects normally associated with conventional cotton farming, which often deprive local villages of scarce water resources by draining lakes and rivers.
- Organic cotton requires less water
- Organic cotton root systems are deeper
- Soil containing organic matter has greater water retention