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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You’re not talking about moving lake water to the grass or something like that. You’re talking about wasting treated water. It takes a lot of money and resources to treat water.

Also there’s not a lot of good clean freshwater. Once it’s contaminated it can take many years for it to go through the natural cycle to be drinkable again.

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