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To compare to this article you'd also have to calculate the amount of water used to make the pipes, dig the ditches, create the machinery to dig the ditches (an
by DougN7 11y ago
To compare to this article you'd also have to calculate the amount of water used to make the pipes, dig the ditches, create the machinery to dig the ditches (and pro-rate the machinery's life time against the amount of time it's used to dig water pipe trenches), fuel used, etc, etc.
- Retric 11y agoYour scale is off. The city of Philadelphia for example loses 60 million gallons per year to leaks out of 250 million gallons pumped from the river. (excluding leaks at the home and business level estimated at 1trillion gallons per year in the US.) To get anywhere close to similar levels from the article you replacing there entire system every 20 years would need to take 20 * 60m * 340 = 408 Trillion gallons of water.