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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imagine if you lived off the grid amongst some jungle society, and you were in charge of collecting water from different sources. but to do so, you had to setup the reservoirs, and boil it, and ensure there were no bad stuff in it because of contamination concerns from the villagers, just make sure it was clean for everyone. Then you see one of your villagers using the clean water to make sure his collection of handmade frisbee’s is clean, and you realize hes using the most water out of everybody.

He’s diminishing the clean water supply, and now you have to use more energy to make clean water.

now you realize some of your reservoirs are not collecting water as good as before, so you have to tell the villagers, ok guys water is a little tight. we are running out, no more frisbee cleaning either, until I can find better sources.

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