Comment on Shower thoughts are wasting water.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 days agoYeah that’s like saying the gas in your car comes from a hole in the ground.
Resource extraction is never free.
Comment on Shower thoughts are wasting water.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 days agoYeah that’s like saying the gas in your car comes from a hole in the ground.
Resource extraction is never free.
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
It could cost around $0.0025 to pump enough water for a shower. It’s not free but it’s a negligible cost.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The cost is that you deplete the aquifer. Generally speaking, water pumped out of the ground doesn’t replenish (except on geologic time scales). That’s what I meant by the fossil fuel comparison. It’s not like taking water from a stream or a lake replenished by snowmelt. Once that aquifer is dry, it’s dry, and the land becomes dead.
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Hopefully some of my pee from the septic tank makes it over to my well then.