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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Several good answers already, but an additional factor I don’t think has been mentioned:
Many parts of the US rely on pumping drinking and irrigation water at unsustainable rates from deep aquifers that built up over thousands of years. Every year, the aquifer recedes from being overdrawn, and in many areas, will be depleted soon.
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