With the heat wave thats hittibg my country I was watering my back yard today, and began wondering if there Is such a thing as wasting water when doing so… I mean, it re-enters the water cycle, doesn’t It? Besides if its absorbed by the plants AND grass … Is It really wasted?
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Yes. Along with some of the other answers regarding reducing the locally available fresh water supply, keep in mind that energy is required to process water from it’s sources to potable water that comes out of your faucet. Unless your community is using 100% ‘renewable’ and carbon-neutral energy sources, the CO2 (and other pollutants that are the result of incomplete combustion) content of the air is increasing, and non-renewable energy sources are being depleted.
A couple ways that energy is consumed: processing the water to make is potable, pumping water from a source to a processing facility and then to a water tower.
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