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> ...restaurants giving you a glass of water with your meal... Seriously? The average person in the westernised world probably uses something between 100 to 4

> ...restaurants giving you a glass of water with your meal... Seriously? The average person in the westernised world probably uses something between 100 to 400 litres of water for washing and flushing per day, personal use actually in their house. And drinks around 2 litres in the same amount of time. External water use on behalf of that person for example for growing food and manufacturing things is even more. Having a glass of water wasted at a restaurant is a complete negligible non-issue. How ridiculous.

vlovich123 3y ago
Well the generous argument is that the average person isn’t eating out so much, but yeah welcome to Californian water culture. It’s brain dead because of entrenched farming and industry interests. They also tell you to cut back on personal usage. But that amounts to 10% compared with agriculture’s 40% (used to grow economic crops like alfalfa which we send to China, not food crops) and 50% is lost to the environment. > Initial water savings came mainly from more efficient indoor plumbing and fixtures; more recent efforts have also focused on reducing outdoor use, which accounts for nearly half of all urban use. https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/ https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/