everyone has heard the saying your wasting water, how can we waste water when we it just evaporates then it rains and filters and we drink it and it has the water cycle, is there any real way to WASTE water?
2007-06-12 00:05:34 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Yes, in two ways. First of all, you have a water bill. So every ounce of water that comes out of your faucet without you making any use of it is wasted, because you paid for it but didn't use it. Secondly, as soon as water gets pumped out to you, it can be contaminated. Filtration is not a perfect system, so pulling excess water from the sewage system causes it to become polluted just a little bit. If everyone is running more water than they use, it adds up.
2007-06-12 00:11:48 · answer #1 · answered by DavidK93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all it doesnt rain everyday. And most big cities use water from lakes or rivers which are stored in reservoir. so if every one wastes water there will be no water left till the next rain comes up.
So its better if we save some water.
2007-06-12 00:23:50 · answer #2 · answered by Sam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
please differentiate between potable water and water with high TDS, brackishness. Only potable water is drinkable.you waste somewhere and you get the same water somewhere else. in places like middle east countries , it just evaporates and rains somewhere else. water cycling is weather driven , evaporation is at one place, raining is at another place. In overview of water cycle on the earth , water is not wasted but in shorter perspective drinkable water is wasted..
water quantity is fixed on the earth, it can never change
2007-06-12 00:45:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the term is really referring to wasting water that you pay for. Most people pay a water bill, and if you keep 'wasting' the water, the one who pays it might notice.
2007-06-12 00:12:15 · answer #4 · answered by Jonny Jo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Currently, we consume (as humans) about 1/2 of available fresh water supplies. Our effluent is unpotable and unusable.
Many major streams such as the Colorad, Rio Grande, etc., don't even reach their terminus at times, dues trictly to the water withdrawals they experience.
Now, as we move to doubling the population to ~ 12 billion by 2050, how will this bear out?
Predictions are such that our next major resource confrontations will revolve around water supplies...
2007-06-12 05:38:53 · answer #5 · answered by outcrop 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I concur with the previous answers. "Do you have a water bill?" would be my question. (Sorry, just had to add that.)
2007-06-12 00:17:53 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋