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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The technology is out there to reduce our need to wait on the water cycle, but it is not part of the overall political agenda to be used consistently and widespread. 80% of Israel’s water supply comes from desalination, and it recycled 90% of its water. They regularly have an over abundance of water and provide for the surrounding countries, too. California has had a desalination plant in Carlsbad since 2015 that supplies San Diego with about 10% of its daily water. If you pretend a plentiful resource is scarce and feign ignorance, you can convince a population to do whatever you want to get that resource.
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