How is it possible to "waste" water??

Question

don't get me wrong. I use very little water and follow all tips and tricks to save every drop.

but doesn't most all of the water we use make it's way back to some water treatment plant where it's purified and recycled?

Answer 1

something can only be recycled so any times and only a small percent of water on earth can be drank.

Answer 2

Yeah we "waste" water because we use it, it is not wasting it, just all the people that posted above me that have s*x with trees, give birth to trees, kiss trees, shove trees up their ***, etc. think that if humans use something it is a waste, so I can't wash my hands because I waste water.  Do what my dad did, put a big sticker on your car that says "H20 Powered" you get so many greens.

Answer 3

I am part of that army that takes your used water and prepares it to return to nature via the discharge pipe, ocean, clouds, rain, river, lakes, reservoirs, drinking water plant, homes and then back to us.

Please don`t label us t**d herders, it hurts our feelings. Our equipment dissolves the smelly stuff and produces microorganisms that break down and eats all the pollutants in the water, then they go into digesters where they themselves are eaten and neutralized by other organisms. During this process methane gas is produced to run our process which cuts down on energy consumption.

As far as directly recycling water for drinking has had limited success, but can and has been done. As soon as people find out, the plants are shut down due to extreme protests.

Answer 4

All of my homes water comes 100% from rain catchment (we live completely off the grid). It's absolutely safe, and actually better then some bottled water and most city tap water.

We storage it in 2000 gallon containers we purchased from Wiley (I think that's the right spelling), but before we did that we got 55gal containers for free from coca cola and Walmart (make sure they're "food grade" or you'll be doing a lot of cleaning). freecycle, craigslist, habitat for humanity, a local ranch and feed store, etc.

Before we decided to catch and drink our rain water I sent in samples of it to UT for testing, the results came back 99 ppm (500 being "drinkable" by the dept of food and drug) 0 toxins, 0 chemicals, 0 pollutants. Since then i purchased a handy little pocket water tester and have kept a close eye on it. I also take it with me on travels and check the water I'm drinking in other cities. Some of the better cities tap water are SLC at 250ppm, Detroit (surprisingly) 280. I don't want to say what some of the lesser ones were. Aquafina bottle water was 440.

Anyway, your roof should be completely clean and a perfect surface for catching water. Any dust that builds on our roof simply settles to the bottom (the house inlet is about a foot off the bottom) of the tank and doesn't affect the taste or health of the water what so ever (we all ate plenty of dirt as a kid). We do ad a table spoon of bleach to the tanks per every 500 gallons of water, not for the caught rain water (as it is clean to drink immediately),but because we storage it for long durations of time in tanks. Without the bleach (silver works just as good) algae tends to grow (which still isn't bad for you, just taste weird).

We do not filter our water as it is cleaner then most "filtered" bottled water.

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Answer 5

You are correct.

Wasting water is generally another way of saying you managed to contaminate it so it can't be used in our food cycle.

Water rarely becomes something that can't be recycled.

Answer 6

wasting water is about the treatment process, when you leave a tap running it may well go back to the treatment plant but, the energy taken to treat and pump water to your property is the majority of waste. as that clean water you are sending back goes from your sink or toilet or bath into the foul water system back to the treatment works you may also be putting the treament plant under duress.! hope this helps.

Answer 7

water on this planet is the same as in the beginning.  wasting water  is to out limit water treatment plants can clean and purify so does earth by rain

Answer 8

Much of the water used in the UK is treated for safe return to the environment - not for drinking. In many places we depend on raw water from reservoirs and rivers for treatment and pumping to our taps.

In a very dry summer reservoirs get low and abstraction from rivers is reduced. So another reason to avoid wasting water is to ensure our supplies last as long as possible.

Answer 9

No -Billions of water are withdraw-en daily for agriculture residential,commerical and industrial use.

The quality of water needed and the quality of water available varies significantly!

Most of the water available is wasted threw leaks,evaporation,overuse, inefficient appliances,plumbing fixtures,and machinery. The biggest water waste in the USA is IRRIGATION this uses 80% water daily!!!

Others are thermoelectric power generation, public water suppliers, homes, offices, and manufacturing plants.

Reclamed water (aka)recyled water--- is used for irrigation dust control and fire suppression

STILL working on this for humans to drink

Answer 10

Yes, but there's a catch.  The water that goes through your sewage pipes get treated just enough so it's safe to touch, but not drink.  Germs are killed but chemicals are not neutralized.  If you were to drink treated sewage, you'd be drinking all sorts of ugly chemicals that people put down their drains, especially in cities where storm water goes into the sewers.   You need a much better water treatment plant to make water safe to drink.

Answer 11

It takes times and energy to purify and clean water, and since a very large percentage of that energy comes from sources that pollute, destroy, or otherwise harm humans or the environment, it could be considered wasteful to use more water than needed, as it takes ever larger amounts of energy to purify ever larger amounts of water, which creates ever larger amounts of pollution, etc.

What is more, much of the world lives without enough water to live in any sort of healthy fashion, so it seems to me that the resources that are used to purify water in places that have enough could be better used to purify water in drier places.

Answer 12

-When u take showers have a big bucket to collect the water that you dont use

Use it to water plants. Also i heard that you can use it to flush toilets manually :o u could try that,

Answer 13

because only a SMALL percentage of earths water is drinkable.

not ALL water can be purified.

and if it has to be purified, do you REALLY want to drink it?