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CAN UR REALLY WASTE WATER,?
I DONT MEAN EVEN TRY DELIBERATELY WASTEING THE GREAT GIFT OF PRECIOUS WATER , what happens to water , say 100 gallons of water fall any where in the world as rain ,then humans or the earth consume some and then it eventually evaporates up into the sky via rivers and seas
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- busterwasmycatLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
in a long sense, in the way you mean, no, water doesn,t get wasted. you do not chemically remove it from the earth system.
The earth system is slow in its motions, though, so at any given point in time there is a limited amount of usable water, so it is possible to "waste" water in the sense that you can deprive someone else of usable water in the short term by using it to no purpose.
At any given time, water is not universally available in a useful condition and in excess quantities. Your wastage would not be permanent but that doesn't mean it causes no harm.
I have ignored the real costs associated with collection and delivery of water for use.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
What people really mean by wasting water is that clean water has been used and must be processed before it can be released back into the ecosystem.
This water needs to have as many chemicals and impurities removed as possible. This is complicated, expensive and only marginally successful. As a result, the water in our environment is slowly getting more and more contaminated.
For example, pharmaceuticals are not being successfully removed during sewage treatment. These drugs are ending up affecting the fish, reptiles and amphibians in our ecosystems. They will continue to spread throughout the food chain.
