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'''Cannabas water use''' is an average of an immense six (6) gallons per plant per day.<ref name="W">https://www.watertechonline.com/home/article/14195732/the-cannabis-water-report</ref><ref>Another estimate is that a mature [[cannabis]] plant consumes 23 liters of water per day, which is 6.08 gallons daily.</ref>  Merely one ounce of pot required 10 or more gallons of water to grow.  Cannabis plants consume nearly twice that of conventional commodity crops:

'''Cannabas water use''' is an average of an immense six (6) gallons per plant per day.<ref name="W">https://www.watertechonline.com/home/article/14195732/the-cannabis-water-report</ref><ref>Another estimate is that a mature [[cannabis]] plant consumes 23 liters of water per day, which is 6.08 gallons daily.</ref>  Merely one ounce of pot required 10 or more gallons of water to grow.  Cannabis plants consume nearly twice the water required by conventional commodity crops:

{{cquote|Three Illinois State University researchers ... found that the water demand for growing cannabis typically '''''exceeds that of commodity crops by nearly double'''''.<ref>https://mjbizdaily.com/cannabis-requires-more-water-than-commodity-crops-researchers-say/</ref>}}

{{cquote|Three Illinois State University researchers ... found that the water demand for growing cannabis typically '''''exceeds that of commodity crops by nearly double'''''.<ref>https://mjbizdaily.com/cannabis-requires-more-water-than-commodity-crops-researchers-say/</ref>}}

A study by the [[liberal]] Brookings Institute concluded merely with respect to [[California]]:

A study by the [[liberal]] Brookings Institute concluded merely with respect to [[California]]: