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I'm canning my own cooked jams, and I'm estimating that I'm wasting half gallon (1.9 liter) of water per cup produced, for canning and dishwashing mostly.

Not including the water and energy used to produce the ingredients (fruits, sugar, pectin) how much water doeswoulds a medium or large scale jam cooking/canning operation would use  ?

My guess is that a for a sufficiently large operation, the water cost per cup is virtually zero sincesince you would reuse the same water for canning multiple batchbatches, and industrial sized dishwashing is probably very efficient. But I'm looking to confirm that with actual data, or at least something from someone with knowledge of such medium/large scale operations.

I'm canning my own cooked jams, and I'm estimating that I'm wasting half gallon of water per cup produced, for canning and dishwashing mostly.

Not including the water and energy used to produce the ingredients (fruits, sugar, pectin) how much water does a medium or large scale jam cooking/canning operation would use  ?

My guess is that a for a sufficiently large operation, the water cost per cup is virtually zero since you would reuse the same water for canning multiple batch, and industrial sized dishwashing is probably very efficient. But I'm looking to confirm that with actual data, or at least something from someone with knowledge of such medium/large scale operations.

I'm canning my own cooked jams, and I'm estimating that I'm wasting half gallon (1.9 liter) of water per cup produced, for canning and dishwashing mostly.

Not including the water and energy used to produce the ingredients (fruits, sugar, pectin) how much water woulds a medium or large scale jam cooking/canning operation use?

My guess is that a for a sufficiently large operation, the water cost per cup is virtually zero since you would reuse the same water for canning multiple batches, and industrial sized dishwashing is probably very efficient. But I'm looking to confirm that with actual data, or at least something from someone with knowledge of such medium/large scale operations.

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How much water and energy does it take to produce canned jams in large/medium scale operations?

I'm canning my own cooked jams, and I'm estimating that I'm wasting half gallon of water per cup produced, for canning and dishwashing mostly.

Not including the water and energy used to produce the ingredients (fruits, sugar, pectin) how much water does a medium or large scale jam cooking/canning operation would use ?

My guess is that a for a sufficiently large operation, the water cost per cup is virtually zero since you would reuse the same water for canning multiple batch, and industrial sized dishwashing is probably very efficient. But I'm looking to confirm that with actual data, or at least something from someone with knowledge of such medium/large scale operations.