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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Fraccing pumps poison into the ground and it gets into ground water. When we poison the ground water, any water added becomes poison. If you have a full glass of water and add a teaspoon of gasoline, adding some more water doesn’t make the gasoline go away.
The same goes for salt. If we add more fresh water to the ocean, we still can’t drink it. People stuck on life rafts who drank sea water died more often than those who had no water and waited for rescue.
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