Eli5 why do we run out of water?

Question

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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Answer 1

>I know we need to conserve water and such but why?

Because it’s very easy to use water *faster than the water cycle can replenish it* into the sources we take it from.