Residential water consumption is less than a non-issue for the ~2/3 of the US population that lives east of approximately the Missouri river (also where most of the lead pipes are).

Municipalities might have to adjust their forecasting and step up the numbers on their next planned purchase of water equipment but that's about it.

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Night_Thastus 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Fresh water usage should never be so casually dismissed. Extracting more has significant consequences - both environmental and human-oriented, regardless of where it comes from.

While residential is small compared to commercial, it's still important. Multiply anything by a couple hundred million citizens and it does add up.

	▲	potato3732842 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The fact that it "adds up" is basically irrelevant considering the size of the water sources these municipalities typically have access to. They can use 5x the water if they want and only the water treatment plant employees will care. They take from the river, and they put back into the river after treatment.
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		Water is not readily fungible. No matter what Chicago or any other more-than-enough water location does, it makes zero difference to someone in Phoenix or Las Vegas. If someone’s in a location with more than enough water, there is really no point in trying to get them to care, because this really really doesn’t matter to them. Typically whatever they don’t use just runs off anyway.
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thunderfork 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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