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Clearly. I was just considering the drought in the west of US lately and the statement "is now becoming". Personally I live in Norway where we wash our garbage
by soft_dev_person 11y ago
Clearly. I was just considering the drought in the west of US lately and the statement "is now becoming".
Personally I live in Norway where we wash our garbage and shower in high quality drinking water. I still find it absurd from time to time, considering the lack of fresh water in many places in the world.
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- Swizec 11y agoWe've got a similar situation going on in Slovenia. I don't know if we have more fresh water than Norway, or not, but there are towns that get 3meters of rainfall per year. One such town has an area of 25km^2, that's 25,000,000 square meters. Which means that on an average year, 75,000,000 cubic meters of fresh drinkable water fall from the sky. Comparing that to stats in the grandparent post: 14 times as much drinking water falls on a tiny town in a tiny European country, as the whole world needs for drinking. That's crazy.
- computator 11y agoSomewhere in your calculation there's an error. 75,000,000 cubic meters of fresh drinkable water fall from the sky per year divided by ( 0.002 cubic meters of drinking water needed per person per day x 365 days in a year ) = 103,000,000 people quenched per year. Your tiny town gets enough fresh water from the sky for 103 million people -- still impressive.