How is showering a waste of water when it directly goes back into the “water infrastructure”

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How is showering a waste of water when it directly goes back into the “water infrastructure”

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Showering waste clean drinking water because practically everywhere it is potable water that is used.

The wastewater system usually mixes all water from the household into a single sewage drain and that will be dirty water that requires a lot of filtration to be clean. In practice, it is filtered to some degree and the rest is released out into the sea.

To get water back to the clean state you need to use lots of energy to remove the salt or to wait for it to evaporate and become rain fall down and be collected and filtered to get clean water appropriate for drinking.

So the water is not gone it no longer clean water.