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 issue isn’t the lack of fresh water, it’s the lack of CHEAP fresh water. We can make as much of it as we want and transport it anywhere. The problem is the cost. As the easy to obtain water starts to run out, we will build the infrastructure to obtain and transport fresh water. It will be an expensive drain on economies, but this is what we (humans) do when we start running out of a vital resource.
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