with Peter Sinclair
Data visualization below shows where the water goes.
Ag is biggest. and biggest within ag is livestock feed.
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May 22, 2023 at 6:15 pm
May 22, 2023 at 8:43 pm
There are different metrics for water use and conservation. This discusses the gross consumption of unprocessed fresh (nonsaline) water from rivers, lakes and canals.
The other conversation about conservation has to do with the cost of water treatment to make it potable from the tap. It “costs” a certain amount of the first class of water and other resources to produce the second. People are using treated drinking water to fill swimming pools and irrigate their lawns and shrubs. That’s acceptable only if (1) the total supply of regional fresh water is high, and (2) the water utility has steeply tiered rates for water consumption.
May 23, 2023 at 2:02 am
Treated drinking water that they promptly poison with chlorine to fill swimming pools
May 23, 2023 at 4:38 am
Is there such a thing as putting “risk on hold”?