National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), Get the Facts

In most cases, an ethanol plant’s process water is not discharged from the facility. Most of the water is recycled and reused. Water may also leave the plant as a component of one of the plant’s coproducts: distillers wet grains, which are fed to beef and dairy cows.

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The U.S. ethanol industry requires about 49 million gallons of water per day (based on 6 billion gallon/year production). That equates to less than three-tenths of one percent (0.3%) of U.S. daily industrial water use.

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National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), Facts in Perspective

If we did not have biofuels such as corn ethanol, we would need more petroleum for more gasoline. And it takes 1,851 gallons of water to refine a barrel of oil, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or more than 44 gallons of water per gallon of crude.

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