How much is used to produce one litre of bottled water?
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From that same article it mentions that 20% of the water 'used' was involved in packaging. Bottled water has the same packaging and will involve the same transportation issues, etc. The only difference is going to be in the water used to create the sweetener (sugar, corn, etc) and in those cases the water is 1) not lost, and 2) often coming from sources like rainfall over a vast area that would otherwise be unavailable to us.
What about meat? Doesn't the animal industry also use insane amounts of water?
It depends on who you mean by "the meat industry" and who's doing the measuring. It's possible to have deplorable levels of inefficiency at one end and something approximating buffalo grazing on the other.