OK, maybe I am being dense here, but how does someone in Pittsburgh conserving water help someone in San Diego? If someone in Pittsburgh wastes water, doesn’t that water go somewhere–say seeping in to the water table after watering the lawn or draining back in to one of the three rivers in the Pittsburgh area? How can someone truly waste water so it is no longer available?
Seems like most water problems are because people want to live in areas that don’t have much water to begin with–like the desert areas of Arizona.
And in the US, how many people truly “waste” water? The way I can conserve water where I live is to make sure it goes down the drain. You see, where I live the water is taken out of a local river, cleaned, and placed in water towers. I then pull my water from a local tower, use it, then it goes down the drain to a company that cleans it up–and then puts it in the same local river. So in essence, I don’t use water, I am borrowing it–even what is flushed!
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OK, maybe I am being dense here, but how does someone in Pittsburgh conserving water help someone in San Diego? If someone in Pittsburgh wastes water, doesn’t that water go somewhere–say seeping in to the water table after watering the lawn or draining back in to one of the three rivers in the Pittsburgh area? How can someone truly waste water so it is no longer available?
Seems like most water problems are because people want to live in areas that don’t have much water to begin with–like the desert areas of Arizona.
And in the US, how many people truly “waste” water? The way I can conserve water where I live is to make sure it goes down the drain. You see, where I live the water is taken out of a local river, cleaned, and placed in water towers. I then pull my water from a local tower, use it, then it goes down the drain to a company that cleans it up–and then puts it in the same local river. So in essence, I don’t use water, I am borrowing it–even what is flushed!