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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You’re not wasting the water itself (as in it being ruined forever or destroyed), but the effort that went into getting that water and/or the opportunity to use the water for something else.
* Money, effort, and other resources are used to get the water there. Your utility payments, workers’ hours, and equipment/property/fuel/electricity were all used to get the water there. Now that it’s down the drain, to get the same (amount of) water back, a similar amount of money, effort, and other resources have to be spent on the replacement water.
* A gallon that simply goes down the drain is a gallon that hasn’t been used for cooking, cleaning, watering plants, etc.
* If you’re in a drought or otherwise limited in capacity, it can harm other efforts (firefighting, etc.).
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