Like when ppl say don’t wash your yard or car with a hose. Isn’t the extra water or for that matter all water either seeping underground and adding to groundwater table or being evaporated into nature to be recycled? In both cases the water will be filtered enough to be potable….
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Let’s say it rains once per week. By that your rain barrel gets filled. In a simpler setting you would use that water for all water uses like drinking, cooking, washing and watering your fields. We neglect other sources in this example. If you waste water for less important stuff like washing your car or watering a golf course you might run out of water to drink until the rain comes next week
The water you drink or use for cleaning is not gone, but it’s dirty and therefore unavailable. We can clean it but that requires energy. If we just rinse off our car (without detergent) the water used us not really dirty and could be reused to water plants. But with most uses it flows downhill. In most cases we would need energy to pump water uphill again. If we don’t have the energy or money to clean or pump the water we have to wait for rain again
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