The People of Oklahoma vs. The Eastern Redcedar

If you read my first post over this subject, Attack! part I, you might have noticed the astonishing statistic that each year, an acre of Eastern Redcedars can consume around 55,000 gallons of water!

Think about this, each day, according to the American Water Works Association, the average person consumes 72.5 gallons of water.  If you take that times 365 days in a year, the average person consumes 26, 645 gallons of water.  Equally as astonishing.

(http://www.gloucesterva.info/util/waterconservationtips.htm)

What I wanted to compare was Redcedars to the population of Oklahoma.  According to ODOT (Oklahoma Department of Transportation), the state averages 0.08 persons per acre.  

When all calculations are done, this means that the average acre of human life in Oklahoma takes 2,150 gallons of water per year, compared to an acre of Eastern Redcedars at 55,000 gallons of water per year.