Due to the water intensive nature of corn and soybean production (246m3 and 42m3 depletion perMT of U.S. corn and soybean meal produced, respectively [47]), replacing corn and soybean meal with algae meal (assuming 25% of the algae meal replaces corn and 75% of the algae meal replaces soybean meal — representative of typical poultry and swine diets) for animal feed would provide huge fresh water savings.