Decimal place error - even I thought surely it couldn't be 0.07%!
In freedom units, 66 billion litres is 53,500 acre-feet. Total irrigation water usage in the USA in 2023 was 80,937,415 acre-feet. (I do have a soft spot for the acre-foot.)
(What a document https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2022/Online_Resources/Farm_and_Ranch_Irrigation_Survey/iwms.pdf)
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