Eli5 why do we run out of water?

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I know we need to conserve water and such but why? Doesn’t it eventually flow back into the ground or evaporated and rained back down regardless of how it’s consumed, so it’s a cycle? Do we lose a bit per cycle?

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If we consume water faster than it falls from the sky (which we do), then we end up draining our lakes and reservoirs dry, until there legitimately isn’t enough useable water to sustain our habits.

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