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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If you launched it into space. Any material we launch off into space—steel, aluminum, water—will never return to this planet again with no option to be recycled or repurposed or even contributing to the collective mass of the earth. Just gone. Forever.

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