Smartphone

About This Data Manufacturing one smartphone uses about 12,760 liters (roughly 3,400 gallons), most of it ultrapure water for chip fabrication. That is more embedded water than about 14 servings of rice. Source: Friends of the Earth / Trucost, Mind Your Step (2015). 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.