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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I used to live on the largest aquifer in the usa, that supplies water to multiple states and a huge amount of american farming industry. The aquifer is completely renewable and has zero problems to refill naturally with rainfall.
However the aquifer being totally fine doesn’t mean people will be fine. Current usage will have the ogallala aquifer empty in the next few decades, and it will refill naturally in a few thousand years. Like most enviromental concerns the earth as a whole will be fine but life as we know it and humans– not so much.
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