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Fresh water usage should never be so casually dismissed. Extracting more has significant consequences - both environmental and human-oriented, regardless of whe
by Night_Thastus 1y ago
Fresh water usage should never be so casually dismissed. Extracting more has significant consequences - both environmental and human-oriented, regardless of where it comes from.
While residential is small compared to commercial, it's still important. Multiply anything by a couple hundred million citizens and it does add up.
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- potato3732842 1y agoThe fact that it "adds up" is basically irrelevant considering the size of the water sources these municipalities typically have access to. They can use 5x the water if they want and only the water treatment plant employees will care. They take from the river, and they put back into the river after treatment.
- lazide 1y agoWater is not readily fungible. No matter what Chicago or any other more-than-enough water location does, it makes zero difference to someone in Phoenix or Las Vegas. If someone’s in a location with more than enough water, there is really no point in trying to get them to care, because this really really doesn’t matter to them. Typically whatever they don’t use just runs off anyway.