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What’s with the “water spending” numbers here? It’s not like the water in shower gets “used up”.

Your meter counts 50 liters, but that’s not 50 liters of precious water supply permanently removed from the planet.

The issue is that capturing, storing and distributing potable water is very expensive and difficult in many regions. Famously much of Australia struggles often with not having sufficient fresh water during droughts. Yet we have it easy compared to many areas of developing countries.

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