Eli5 Conserving Water

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I understand conserving water in areas of drought.

But what about places that have heavy rains and a healthy water table. Why do we have to conserve water? Can’t we use as much as we want and then it will evaporate, come down as rain, and get used again??

I get that it takes more energy to treat the water but like that’s show biz baby we all use water. It makes more sense to conserve energy in other ways.

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Likely you can. I live next to the Great Lakes. I could fill my pool every single day and nothing bad would really happen. It’s just hard to send a message to the population that everyone on the West coast needs to conserve water but Michigan and Ohio just go nuts.

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