eli5 How is water wasted?

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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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A lot of water that comes out of your tap is pumped from underground water that won’t refill for hundreds of thousands of years. The water isn’t gone and will fall in rain some other place but the water that comes out of your tap might realistically be gone forever to you

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