| ▲ | bayindirh 9 hours ago |
| A nominal water aerator limits water around 5L-6L/min levels. For every minute I don't use the water, I spend approximately two full kettles of water. With every 5L of water I can - Cook 4 servings (~400 grams) of pasta.
- Brew 5L of tea/coffee
- Water all the plants at home two times.
- Possibly wash most of my handwash-only dishes in one go.
- etc.
So it's not not meaningfully wasteful. However, I can't turn off the water in the winter, because I feel very cold otherwise. However, this doesn't mean I don't waste any water or happy about what I'm doing. My only (half) relief is this water is somehow processed and reused by city for other needs, at least one more time. |
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| ▲ | eek2121 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Water is by far the most abundant resource on the planet (70+% of earth is water), and we have methods to remove salt and contaminants from almost all of it. We can even turn urine into drinking water. I wouldn’t worry about wasting it. We’ll die from something else long before water becomes an issue. |
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| ▲ | pantalaimon 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The water is cheap and plentiful, what's wasteful is heating the water and throwing that away. |
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| ▲ | bayindirh 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | The maps, surveys and projections say otherwise, but of course you're free to believe what you believe. | | |
| ▲ | TeMPOraL 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's the thing, dollars are usually a better indicator, unless something somewhere is burning money to prevent prices from reflecting real scarcity. | | |
| ▲ | bayindirh 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | We're drinking one of the cheapest drinking water in the world, but this doesn't change the reality of sinkholes appearing where we deplete the water in our country. So, the prices might not be rising that quickly for now, but sinkholes are giving us the warning. Prices don't always point correctly, esp. when there are other economic and socioeconomic factors at play. |
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| ▲ | eru 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Well, even if the city doesn't re-use the water, it doesn't just disappear. |
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| ▲ | bayindirh 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, but getting rid of chemicals and returning it to a non-poisonous state for the nature is a big plus. You can't dump everything to the soil and say "that's your problem now, nature. Cope!". | | |
| ▲ | shepherdjerred an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | > You can't dump everything to the soil and say "that's your problem now, nature. Cope!". Nature couldn't care less. Nature works on much larger timescales than humans. It's the humans that are impacted. Just like climate change, plastic, and all other environmental issues -- humans are paying (or will pay) the price, not nature. | |
| ▲ | eru 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes, I mean when you are 'wasting water' you are mostly wasting the effort it takes to clean the water. Not the water itself. As opposed to eg 'wasting petrol', where the petrol really is gone afterwards. At least it has been chemically transformed. |
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