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So then if you are on municipal water systems
and are willing to pay for the water and sewer you are then helping
the economy (providing jobs for the power, water, and sewer company
workers) the water used by the shower will not be polluted to the
point that the sewer system will not be able to return it to the
aquifer. <br>
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I still fail to see why "<font face="Goudy Old Style" size="4">The
planet cannot afford such individuals with little regard for the
rest of us." is a valid stance on this topic when all it does it
remove a portion of water from availability for a time, it is
returned. It even helps a number of people if you take into
account all the people working in the field of supplying the water
and energy(if you are on municipal services).</font><br>
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Lee<br>
On 5/17/2011 6:43 PM, Reuben Deumling wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Not really that simple.
For most of us on municipal water systems there's a lot of
infrastructure, energy, pipes, trucks, pumps, chlorine, filters on
this incoming end, and a similar but even more complicated and
expensive infrastructure on the sewer end. All that costs money and
materials to install and maintain and operate.
Back in the seventies Amory Lovins figured out that if you back a kWh
through the appliance, wires, transmission lines to the power plant
and back to the mine, not using that kWh actually translates into a
far greater upstream investment that isn't required. Whether it is a
factor of 4 or 10 isn't really the point. The same holds true for
water except the units and losses are different.
The water molecules are still there, but they're always there even
after they are polluted or not recharged in the aquifer from which
they were pumped. Where the water is, whether it is drinkable, all of
this is important.
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:36 PM, lee Weaver <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lgweaver@gmail.com"><lgweaver@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Why
The water goes right back into the ground. it's not like that water is
destroyed.
now trying to start a fight I'm truly asking a valid (IMHO) question.
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