From my understanding, water has a pretty complex life cycle that can boil down to (hehe) this : it’ll move around in the ground and in the air forever, sometimes passing through alive creatures in the process.
But water is water, if I buy 100L of bottled water and pour it to the ground, is it really wasted? It’s just moving through the cycle and it’ll come back just as clean eventually. The waste is financial for me or for the cleaning process in the water treatment plant. But really the water on the planet is always the same amount, right? It’s finite, but both abundant and “self cleaning”, no?
When I see the rivers being dry I can’t help but think the water is just elsewhere, which is just a matter of reaching it.
Bonus question : How does toxic waste affect that cycle? Is evaporating enough to be clean again?
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Drying lands (droughts) is a factor here too. Moist ground allows for rainwater to be ‘soaked in’, the water goes into the ground, filters through, so we can pump it up later and use it.
Dry ground does not. On dry ground even in heavy rains blocks most of the water, so it runs on top, into streams and back into the ocean – without really ever becoming availble as well-water.
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