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Fast Fashion Water Consumption
The fast fashion industry uses massive quantities of water that totaled of 79 billion cubic meters in 2015, an an average estimated 200 tons of water usage throughout the production of one ton of textile[ ]. A majority of the fast fashion global water usage is related to cotton cultivation and the wet process of textile manufacturing which includes bleaching, dying, printing, and finishing. Currently, textile production uses an estimated 44 trillion liters of water annually for irrigation, 3% of global irrigation water use. 95% of these are associated with cotton production. In the production of T-shirts and jeans, cotton cultivation causes 88 to 92% of the total water footprint. However, cotton has the highest water footprint of any fashion fiber, as 44%, is grown for export about half of the local water use impacts cotton cultivation caused by foreign demand. For example, it is estimated from trade relations that 20% of water loss is suffered by the Aral Sea was caused by cotton consumption in the European Union. The fast fashion industry impacts local water supplies by producing wastewater during the process of manufacturing some chemicals are used that are toxic, and improperly treated wastewater that enters local groundwater can potentially degrade the entire ecosystem. In Cambodia, the factions are responsible for 88% of industrial manufacturing that has cost 60% of the water pollution, and 34% of chemical pollution. Chemical pollution is greatest in countries that use cotton cultivation, and in countries where wastewater does too, textile industry production is not purified properly. As chemicals spread around the globe they enrich and bioaccumulate in the food chain, causing risk to organisms’ ecosystems and biodiversity. Water and energy are exported such as Asian countries to countries where they&#39; re consumed like North America Europe and Australia. Waste is generated during production and cultivation and its consumption, where it is disposed to countries like Africa[ ].