Even my kids are telling me, “You’re wasting water.”
I’m using water, I can’t “waste water”, after all there is something called “The Water Cycle”. Heard of it?
I might be using more water than I really need to or I might be wasting water from my city water supply, but I’m certainly not “wasting water”.
Every drop of water I use will end up right back where it came from.
Conserving water so that the resevoir doesn’t fall below safe levels is one thing, but don’t brain wash me and my kids into thinking flushing the toilet after we use it is going to deplete the world of water.
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AMEN! Finally someone else who actually realizes water is a renewable resource and is needed for life to exist. In fact watering the lawn is just recharging the ground water table (as well as the cloud water storage). If you really want to see who is “wasting water storage” it is those who cover the ground with impervious surfaces so the water table cannot recharge from the rainfall or the water we use and place on the ground!
mark on September 2nd, 2007 at 3:05 pm | Link
we cant believe how bad the water restritation are going we cant even water our garden
kathy on November 7th, 2007 at 5:07 pm | Link
snowpack in the great state of colorado up over 200% of normal. yeah!!!
mark on January 30th, 2008 at 11:23 am | Link
I never understood this either. How can one be wasting water? Even if I leave the hose running and let the water pour out onto the street, it’ll evaporate and go back into the ocean. The only way I can think of that we can ‘waste water’ is if we put some in a space shuttle and send it off into space (but that would be more like wasting our tax dollars than anything else). And even then, it’ll probably come back and land somewhere in a desert eventually.
Lawrence on February 4th, 2008 at 9:33 pm | Link
Yes this is something that makes me very mad too. I always hear people saying “You are wasting water” and it irritates me. No, we don’t have a limited amount of water. It’s called recycling water, AKA The Water Cycle.
Elizabeth on May 2nd, 2008 at 4:46 pm | Link
Like much of the natural world we are exploiting, water resources are being used at a rate that exceeds the rate of replenishment. So yes, the water cycle recycles water, and runoff evaporates back into the atmosphere to return to the earth’s surface in some form of precipitation, eventually. Over time, the water equation is balanced. But rates of evaporation, and the amount of time it takes water resources to cycle through the water cycle varies. We are using it more and more at a rate which exceeds the natural replacement rate, thus using water wastefully will catch up with us. Second, groundwater takes a significant amount of time to replace, depleting groundwater resources is almost as bad as how we’ve used up the fossil fuel resources that took millions of years to accumulate within a few decades.
Heather on August 9th, 2008 at 11:49 am | Link
amen bruh-da
anonymous on August 29th, 2008 at 5:18 pm | Link