How can you possible waste water?

Question

Because doesn't it go into the water bed and then go back into where we get water? I don't get it because I though that all water was recycled.

Answer 1

Wasting water as in using amounts that are not neccessary. We don't need to have 25 minute showers, fill up the sink for one washable item or leave the water running when we brush our teeth.

I don't know for sure about the rest of it but seriously what year were you born? No offence buddy but where I live we are in no position to argue about wasting water we are lucky we can have water to drink.

Answer 2

It will use more of the groundwater...

And when it gets used, it will either be cleaned and injected back into the ground, or into the ocean, or surface water. Or it might be in a septic tank.

It's not being wasted, but it's drying up the aquifers unnecesarily, but all that water's gonna be gone soon anyway.

I agree with you.... you can't really waste it.

Even the ocean water can be purified.

Answer 3

in a sense you are right; the water goes back into the cycle and is not ULTIMATELY and ETERNALLY lost. It may get back into the polar ice caps or into the ocean, and in a VERY LONG RUN, come back to you as a raindrop.

you waste AVAILABLE water when you use it unwisely. If, as a fair lady has remarked, you take a 20 minute bath, then the water that could have been used for another one's bath is "lost" down the drain - and that is the "waste" of a precious opportunity. So, if a whole nation of about 200 million people take 20 minute baths each, then that country is wasting resources on the luxury - those resources are required for other people in the world.

Answer 4

"Possible" is not a verb.  

And where waste water goes varies a lot from place to place.