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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“Like when people don’t wash their hands…” Hahahahaha, not even.

Homie, if you take all “urban” use of water (which includes industrial applications as well as residential use) that combined is 10% of our total water use. 50% is qualified as environmental, which is just water being used to maintain waterways. 40% is agricultural. These numbers are for California, by the way.

Hell it’s estimated that 30% of all water waste is stuff like *leaks.*

You and your use of water is literally irrelevant to the broader water use discussion. Remember that every time they tell you to reduce. You could be raptured tomorrow and it would not affect the result.

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