6,776
gallons of water per item
Per item: one leather jacket (~1.5 kg leather)
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339
Washing Machine Load
About This Data
A bovine-leather jacket using roughly 1.5 kilograms of leather embeds about 25,650 liters (around 6,800 gallons), almost all of it from raising the cattle. Estimated from the WFN leather figure of about 17,100 liters per kilogram. Source: Water Footprint Network (Mekonnen & Hoekstra), per-item estimate.
Figures are global-average totals (green + blue + grey water) per item and are not California-specific; the crop fact sheets on this site show California consumptive water use (green + blue, excludes grey) per serving, so compare with that difference in mind.