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When you pick up a packet of food in the supermarket, you can see the calories, protein and fibre listed clearly. But there’s one ingredient you’ll never find on the label, even though it’s essential to producing almost everything we eat: water.

And not just the water you can see in a juicy tomato or crisp lettuce, but the vast, hidden volumes used to grow crops, feed animals and process food.

Globally, agriculture accounts for around 72 per cent of annual freshwater consumption. Every burger, avocado and cup of coffee carries an invisible price tag measured in litres of water. Yet most of us rarely think about it. Should we?

In a special edition of our podcast, Ben Haines dives deep into these invisible waters...

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