Water: The Hidden Cost of Excess

Squandering water is so profligate due to all the energy and fossil fuels wasted along with the water itself. Wasted energy drives increased climate change. One way the climate crisis damages our ecosystems is by causing drought. This increases water scarcity. We end up with one of the worst positive feedback loops imaginable. Wasteful water consumption, drives additional water exploration and transportation, which drives even more temperature extremes from climate change, which then requires us to use even more energy to prepare water (such as during record cold snaps), which then further requires us to utilize more carbon energy sources to move and extract water as water scarcity rises.