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[Florida’s] first ethanol-production factory put in a request for 400,000 gallons (1.5m litres) a day of city water. The request by US Envirofuels would make the facility one of [Tampa’s] top ten water consumers overnight, and the company plans to double its size. Florida is suffering from a prolonged drought. Rivers and lakes are at record lows and residents wonder where the extra water will come from … using farmland for ethanol pushes up food prices internationally (world wheat prices rose 25% this week alone … A typical ethanol factory producing 50m gallons of biofuels a year needs about 500 gallons of water a minute.

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