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For a moment, I thought TreeHugger had missed some zeros. And then I realized the site had simply fallen prey to marketing hype.

Here’s what I am talking about.

Levis is going to town about its new Water<Less jeans whose production process it claims saves about 10-20 liters of water.


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On the face of it, you might think it is admirable. But to someone like me who had been following the water scene (as part of my cleantech watch), I thought Levis probably meant 1000-2000 liters. Why?

To just produce 1 Kg of cotton cloth takes 11,000 liters of water (if the entire production value chain starting with cotton cultivation is considered). A pair of jeans will require close to a Kg of cotton. Why should someone go to town if their process saves about 0.1% of this? And more so this is odd for a jeans company, because jeans consume so much water when you wash them during use. The savings of 10-20 liters will be easily gotten rid of with one single wash of the jeans (as compared to some other cloth like plain cotton).

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Either I have not understood what Levis is saying, or it is one heck of a marketing hype.



About Narasimhan Santhanam (Narsi)

Narsi, a Director at EAI, Co-founded one of India's first climate tech consulting firm in 2008.

Since then, he has assisted over 250 Indian and International firms, across many climate tech domain Solar, Bio-energy, Green hydrogen, E-Mobility, Green Chemicals.

Narsi works closely with senior and top management corporates and helps then devise strategy and go-to-market plans to benefit from the fast growing Indian Climate tech market.

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