How are you "wasting water" when you leave your faucet running?

Damn it's hotter than El Azizia in this thread...

Runs like 29's at a crappy college wrote:

Damn it's hotter than El Azizia in this thread...

pHoenix a record 106 today.

Are the car washes still operating and the backyard pools full and cool?

conservation of mass wrote:

I have been told that it is wasteful to let water from the faucet run down the drain. Can someone explain this?

You're wasting CLEAN water, and dumping it into the sewer. No thanks to human intervention and people like you, there's very little fresh, clean water left on the earth, which contributes to the demise of all humans.

conservation of mass wrote:

I have been told that it is wasteful to let water from the faucet run down the drain. Can someone explain this?

The water comes out of the ground, then eventually makes it to my faucet before running down my drain. Once the water runs down my drain, it goes through the sewage treatment plant, then gets dumped into a local creek and ultimately ends up going back down into the ground.

So the water started in the ground, and ends up back in the ground, but somehow has been waisted in the whole process?

...because you are wasting what someone else in your community needs.

Won't get into the 'water is a finite amount ' debate, but essentially if the area where you live undergoes climate change and you become arid, then either you have to move to where it is now raining more, or the govt has to build alternative supply sources - desal, waste treatment etc, all of them hungry for energy which in the short term is finite , by the time your fossilised remains has turned to something useful, we all wont be around.

So yes, unless you are using rainwater with absolutely no help from external energy, you are wasting .

See what has happened in Cape Town, should the residents have just carried on. What would the status be today if they did.

So in that particular area- as has happened in most 'Mediterranean west coast climates'- i.e. Perth (australia), Spain, north africa, north america, there has been desertification (climates moving towards poles) . But because you say 'it is all finite' lets agree that it now rains more in temperate areas that are becoming sub tropical, more storms in tropical areas...so move there or get your water from there, the latter of course requiring capture, storage, transport.

Geepers you americans...do you have a school system?

OP thinks if he takes a piss in his garden it will rain on his head 5 minutes later.

Or if he leaves the faucet running he doesn't need to water the lawn

Wow...dumbest thread topic ever?

To the engineers etc please preserve your IQs by not entertaining him with science

HardLoper wrote:

People are always telling me not to leave the faucet on for 10 seconds yet they take 10 minute long hot showers. Just another liberal environmentalist campaign to make you feel guilty about modern technology instead of enjoying it. Our city has wasted $50B on a light rail that serves almost no one, so I'm pretty sure we can afford some desalination plants if we ever have a drought.

People are always telling you this?? If this is the type of conversation you have frequently, you are a big loser than I first thought. Also why are you timing people's showers?

I agree that wasting water is not the best decision for everyone on the planet especially if there are parts of the world that have no access to fresh water but honestly you should think about eating all those avocados a year and think about how much money an avocado tree consumes. But if we are returning to the faucet situation I would suggest installing an in the wall faucet because if A) gives you more room in the kitchen, B) looks cooler and C) allows you to rinse your dishes faster which in term saves water. I recently installed one in my kitchen and I love it. I chose one from this review article and I am very pleased with the way it performs. You can read more here: http://www.renewyourkitchen.net/wall-mounted-faucets/

the toilet water nd sink water join to the same pipe. i let my sink water run , to make sure all the poo is pushed away from my house.

Old thread, but I like the explanation that negative entropy is really what is being wasted. Anyone who tells you that you are "waisting water" is an idiot or a liar. This isn't to say that you shouldn't run water down the drain needlessly. There are many reasons that this is a bad thing to do. But "waisting water" is not one of them.

seb345 wrote:

I agree that wasting water is not the best decision for everyone on the planet especially if there are parts of the world that have no access to fresh water but honestly you should think about eating all those avocados a year and think about how much money an avocado tree consumes. But if we are returning to the faucet situation I would suggest installing an in the wall faucet because if A) gives you more room in the kitchen, B) looks cooler and C) allows you to rinse your dishes faster which in term saves water. I recently installed one in my kitchen and I love it. I chose one from this review article and I am very pleased with the way it performs. You can read more here:

http://www.renewyourkitchen.net/wall-mounted-faucets/

Is this product as good as you described it?

I make sure to pee off my deck a few times each week. I often wonder about the horrible worldwide resource issue I'm creating from putting "water" on my yard, rather than diluting it somewhat by using indoor facilities, then flushing it where magic does something with it that's apparently better.

Also, I wonder as I pee about which molecules I'm again cycling through my body. Is this a fraction of diarrhea 'water' from Hitler, or from President Nixon, or maybe it was the last breath that Elvis ever took?

Then I go back inside.

Yes, we have the same problem, and are seeking solutions, will contact them later and see if they can help us. We have many villages that are not connected to water, electricity and professionals are welcomed to solve such problems. We have agriculture and wine that fill our budget, time for changes.

There is no such thing as negative entropy. By definition is is always positive.