Why do we have to save on water?

Disclaimer: I have jumped from OP to last post.
I have a brief comment to make regarding this sentence from that OP:
So, what is all this fuss about water saving? What goes around comes around seems to be the truth of the matter

It met well be that "what goes around comes around", but there is nothing whatsoever to guarantee that it will come around in the same part of the world! What goes down your plughole here might go on to fall as torrential rain anywhere in the world.

Last time I checked, only a few weeks ago, there are still parts of England where next summer's supply of water still isn't guaranteed!

Look how hard the authorities are working at the moment to stop the coronavirus in China spreading.

But it is not so much the 'grand' killers, but the deaths saved by blood pressure medication, statins, treatment for Type2 diabetes, antibiotics, clean water, hygiene regulations. These are what keep us alive and kicking.

And also MOnica our medical expertise is keeping people alive who would have died from disease in the past. There were so many killer diseases which wiped out millions (or billions).

The growing world population is not caused by too many people being born. Two thirds of countries have birthrates at replacement or less.

The problem now is rapidly increasing longevity, we are the problem.

the water supply from - Down the Plughole (Thompson Yardley).

And advise never trying to compose a post while in a car on a bumpy road.

I’m just thankful I’m one of (the lucky minority of) people who has easy access to clean, safe water. Perhaps if we had to walk miles every day to get it from a river we’d appreciate it more. Wasting resources is never a good thing, imho.

I’d recommend the book my 4 year old grandson got his knowledge about

More Good news everybody...

$1 water filtration discovery - cheap clean water solution.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N5hdOcsKrg

Some people need help finding their own nose

We have all the water we need

Dunno about you but Im not about to start filling my kettle from the puddles out on the pavement..

I’m baffled by Quizqueen’s post to <<Save water, produce fewer people!>>

I’d have thought that saving water by, for example, sharing baths and showers is likely to produce more people!

Good news everybody!

About two-thirds of the surface of the Earth is covered by water (actual, 71%)

We have all the water we need -

Even more if the ice melts due to global warming.

Yes, but as I understand the matter the amount of water we have in the entire world is not enough to supply the amount households, factories etc are actually using in the civilised world.

As long as we continue to water the garden using a hose, leave a tap running while we brush our teeth, or allow taps to drip we are wasting water that doesn't necessarily evaporate and turn into rain, or drain down through the ground to the water table.

Yes let's all pay loads more, as it's so clean!

I have no problem paying for the luxury of a clean supply of water straight from my kitchen and bathroom taps. That is the ultimate luxury and we should be thankful. As we've noted, there is the cost of treating it plus miles and miles of pipes to maintain. Leakages are very expensive. People take all this for granted and consequently there is a lot of wastage in the home.

*"Water giants make £2BILLION in profit - but SEVEN of them didn't pay a penny in tax
The 19 water made profits of more than £2.05billion in 2013, but paid just £74million in tax, with seven of them paying no corporation tax at all"*

(Cannot understand people arguing to pay more money than they already do to the shareholders - as if they are not already creaming it in.)

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/water-giants-make-2billion-profit-4703371

Yes, it is the cost of processing it guilia and it is a finite resource.

Has someone been getting their water for free?

I've always paid for mine. Vastly overpriced, too.

We let far too much profiteering off of our necessitees like heat and water.
Pursuade me otherwise...

If farmers cannot irrigate their crops there may be no food and the population will decrease naturally so David Attenborough and Chris Packham will get their wish.

They do not need processed water to irrigate.

Excellent explanation M0nica.

It depends on where the water is, and an awful lot of it is in the sea and deep in the earth's crust

Supplies of fresh water suitable for human and animal consumption is much more limited and distribution can be patchy. Think of Australia and the long term drought that has contributed to its wildfire problems and is slowly killing its cattle rearing industry. Similarly if too many people live in one area demand soon exceeds supply and has to be brought long distances at great cost

In the 1980s and 90s, in a long dry period, many of my local chalkland streams ran dry because so much water was being taken from underground resources to supply homes, farms and industry that there was none for the streams.

Getting sufficient fresh potable water to all those demanding it can only be done by building huge reservoirs.My village, no parish, in Oxfordshire is threatened by one bigger than Kielder Water surrounded by an 80 foot dam, or a sit is known in this kind of case - a bund -

The alternative is desalination and piplines taking water hundreds of miles across country. Desalination is very expensive. OK if you are a middle eastern sheikh and it is the only source of water available, but in this country it could double our water bills.

That is why we save on water

Because Climate Change is the new religion, and like all religions it contains a lot of hard common sense and rules for life, as well as attracting prophets of doom who delight in giving out dire prophecies and telling the unbelievers what they must not do.

quizqueen
You obviously saw the Chris Packham program ? Scary stuff, wasn't it ?

Save water, produce fewer people!

Profits before people.

Baloney!