HEMP ENZYME COULD SAVE 1.33 BILLION GALLONS OF WATER A YEAR.

Industrial Environment,  February, 2005  

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Crucial water shortages are reported with regularity. Yet, a water-dependent T-shirt industry continues to boom as it manufactures and sells 1.4 billion cotton T-shirts yearly. Figures compiled by Hemptown Clothing, Inc. (OTCBB:HPTWF) confirm that producing one cotton T-shirt takes/purges 1740 gallons from our country's fragile water supply. If America's cotton garments were switched to hemp, the company said that 1.33 billion gallons a year of precious water would be saved.

To spearhead the change, Hemptown is developing Pectinase, a patented industrial hemp enzyme that can ...

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