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> Imbalance the system, and you have indeed "consumed" your local water supply. Right, but this is not what is reported by "water consumption". It would be muc
by tempfile 2mo ago
> Imbalance the system, and you have indeed "consumed" your local water supply.
Right, but this is not what is reported by "water consumption". It would be much better to have some kind of index (probably multiple) that estimates how close a particular feature of the water system is to a problem. Is the temperature too high, is there too high a concentration of some contaminant, etc etc.
- swiftcoder 2mo ago> this is not what is reported by "water consumption" You are make a semantic distinction here, but "consumptive use" is a term of art in modelling water usage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumptive_water_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumptive_water_use
- d1sxeyes 2mo agoYes but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumptive_water_use#:~:text=Evaporation%20from%20the,from%20this%20model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumptive_water_use#:~:text=...
- tempfile 2mo agoI am not! You said that there are certain tipping points which, when reached, mean that your local water source might be "consumed" - meaning it does not regenerate and goes away permanently. By contrast, in the link you gave (and everywhere else), water consumption means that you used some water. It doesn't say anything about whether you are near a tipping point. They are totally different concepts!