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
Just don’t be an ass about water use. Nobody is saying that you are wasting water by using it. Just dont use more than you require. If you don’t need the water to be running, turn it off. Same goes for electricity. Anything that keeps you alive, safe, or well-fed should always be used wisely. Just because you can, doesn’t mean that you should.
Meat on December 1st, 2008 at 8:12 pm | Link
I can and I will!
mark on February 27th, 2009 at 3:58 pm | Link
“Yes we can”
u-turn king on April 10th, 2009 at 1:12 pm | Link
It’s not that you’re “wasting water”, it’s that there is a limited amount of clean water on Earth and when we use it all up it takes a lot of other natural non renewable resources to purify it again. We’re already wasting the other resources so maybe you should be more conscious of your actions, considering you have the choice. You might think that one person doesn’t make a difference but one person will influence another and so on. Pretty soon that number isn’t so small.
Anonymous on May 19th, 2009 at 6:34 pm | Link
yea, water isn’t renewable dumbasses
Jess on May 19th, 2009 at 6:37 pm | Link
Just cos it goes thru a cycle doesn’t mean it makes more. its just switching forms. get your facts straight.
Brendan on May 19th, 2009 at 6:39 pm | Link
obviously the people who are saying the water recycles itself do NOT understand that as people with brains should know that you do let water running if one does not need it! Its like saying… I will die anyway one day so it does not matter if I smoke… you are not helping the situation we are in. Do you think this is something that is made up! Amazing how people can be so ignorant.
grace on May 20th, 2009 at 4:50 pm | Link
ACHAL:- In todays world WATER SCARCITY PROBLEM IS VERY BIG IT LED BECAUSE OF WASTING WATER TOO MUCH THE PEOPLE ARE NOT CLOSING THE NULL .MAINLY THE POOR PERSON HASE TO FACE THIS PROBLEM MORE .THE RICH PERSON NOT GET TOO MUCH BECAUSE BY THE HELP OF MONEY THEY CAAN BUY WATER CONTANAIR WHICH POOR PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORT
ACHALJAIN on May 29th, 2009 at 2:48 am | Link
Apparently, some do not realize that using water will not eradicate it, but instead make it dirty. Yes, the water cycle will evaporate it, it will come back as clean water, but what happens when people use it again? Exactly. Plus, this is happening much faster than it should. The term “wasting water” simply means that you are letting clean water get contaminated without using it when it could be. But, people should not say that you are wasting water just for using it. It’s like saying “You’re wasting food for eating it.”
P.S- Jess is a retard, water IS renewable.
Navid on January 2nd, 2010 at 1:15 am | Link
Obviously if you dont care about how much water you are using, you only care about yourself and have no regaurd to your children’s or anyone else’s future. We are already going through water shortages because people like you who are careless and oblivious to what is going on around you. Within the next 25 years we will all see a difference in the availability of fresh water that our Earth can provide us. Your kids are in fact right, thanks to the schools who apparently are providing real information. Water shortages are a major problem and you do need to take measures (not desperate life changing measures, but at least dont leave the water running and stupid **** that isnt necessary in the first place) into your own hands, and if it is too hard for you, i hope that when the major problems hit, you are the first to be affected.
Collegekid on June 21st, 2010 at 8:52 am | Link
and yeah, we do have a water cycle, but when you use water and alter its state, the water will not all come back. Less than 1% of the water on earth is available for use. Most of which is locked into polar ice caps. plus almost 35% of our available water (rounding down) is wasted. The biggest water aquifer in the world (natural fresh water storage: Ogallala) is running out at an outrageous speed. Look up some facts.
Collegekid on June 21st, 2010 at 8:57 am | Link