Whenever you let water run, you make your home part of the greater water system, which eventually starts with springs and ends in an ocean. You have a tiny side arm of a river in your sink!
Whenever you let water run, you make your home part of the greater water system, which eventually starts with springs and ends in an ocean. You have a tiny side arm of a river in your sink!
When I go and water my pumpkins part is evaporated and part is put into ground water. That groundwater then drains to a part of the local river upstream of the treatment plant and in theory a part of the water I put on my pumpkins may go right back to my house again. A peculiar water cycle for sure. One could imagine that a few water molecules may have made the trip more than once.
And yet, you have to pay for those molecules each time! What a scam…
Thankfully not actually! I live in a region with such an overabundance of water that slightly less than 0,2% of the water volume in the river is used by us humans. The rest goes straight to the ocean. I only pay a monthly fee for the maintenance of the pipes and the water plant.