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Wonderwater Café launches this Wednesday

Admin | 10.09.12

Greenhouse are excited about the momentum building around the launch of the Wonderwater Café in Shoreditch this Wednesday! On 2degrees, the 'How much water do you eat?' article is currently ranking as most read.

Hosted by Leila's Shop in Shoreditch (a local favourite), the café will explore issues surrounding the critical relationship between food and water, using delicious food and excellent design.

The Wonderwater café will be in London from 12^th to 23^rd September 2012 at Leila’s Shop, 17 Calvert Avenue, Shoreditch. Situated in the heart of the Shoreditch Design Triangle, the café's launch comes as London Design Festival 2012 begins, a festival bringing together the best and most innovative designers from around the world.

With creative, thought-provoking menus, designed especially for Wonderwater Café, guests will be offered another dimension to their meal decision: how much water do you eat? TreeHugger's How much water do you eat? The Wonderwater Café will tell you has been a very popular read. 

Visitors to the Wonderwater Café at Leila’s Shop will be able to enjoy a mouth-watering selection of responsibly sourced food, while digesting information from the vibrant infographics, dynamic visual displays and raindrop-shaped blackboards, all of which convey mind-blowing facts and figures on the water footprint of its meals.

The displays will be integrated into the existing shop, with bespoke water footprint menus for the duration of the festival.  Armed with this new information, consumers will leave the café more able to make informed and responsible choices in they way they buy and consume food. 

If you're on Twitter, don't forget to follow us (@Greenhouse_Anna), to get the latest updates on the Wonderwater Café (and plenty of other green news!).  If you pop along to the Café, join in the conversation by using the hashtags  #wwcuk (Wonderwater Café) and #ldf12 (London Design Festival 12)!

Water facts you should know:

- Global fresh water availability is scarce at best - it represents a mere 3% of the Earth's water

- Food is one of the top contributors to UK consumers' daily water consumption (followed closely by paper and cotton clothing)

- More than 60% of the UK's water consumed through food is derived from outside the UK, according to the Water Footprint Network

- The average UK citizen consumes 4,645 litres per day, which has a significant impact on resourced in water-scare countries

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