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 water is moving. We have infrastructure(designed to store, transport and treat) in areas no longer receiving the same volume of water. That volume has move geographically. Meaning it falls somewhere else now. And that original area we started with does not have access to this water.
So water is not gone. It is inaccessible.
People talking about clean or dirty is irrelevant. There is NO water we cant clean. Cost would be the issue. Even then that cost will come down at some point. Or the need will be greater.
Dirty water only matters when you are incredibly poor. Even then, we’ve done alot of work at getting clean water to developing countries.
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