How is showering a waste of water when it directly goes back into the “water infrastructure”
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In most places, unless you have a grey water set up, water that comes out of your taps is called potable drinking water. This water is caught in catchments in the environment and is monitored and treated to make sure it is safe for us to use at home for drinking, cooking, washing us and our clothes and cleaning. It gets delivered from the water treatment plant to your house via pipes.
That water then goes down the drain with all the other water from your house (toilet, sinks, washing machine, etc) to a waste water treatment plant where it gets filtered and treated so that it reaches a safe standard, and then it is released into the waterways. It doesn’t go back into the water catchment.
So, during drought particularly, the water that goes into your house is coming from the catchment, but doesn’t go back into the catchment. Water levels in the catchments drop, and then we get water restrictions and fines for wasting water.
We have a limited amount of safe, drinking water in the world and availability isn’t reliable. The number of people keeps increasing so there is less water per person. It is good to only use as much water as we need.
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