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Do your part to conserve water: Use plastic, not paper. Don't recycle. If you have a septic system replace it with a sewer. Do not buy local, but from wherever is able to most efficiently grow the crop.

Making paper uses tons of water. So does washing the plastic for recycling. Water is far more precious than energy/oil right now.

A septic system wastes all it's water, but a sewer system recycles almost all of it.

Growing things locally can use more water than if you plant things in the area they grow in best.



Or just live somewhere where there's plenty of water.

Water falls from the sky, and in many parts of the world it's not a scarce resource at all.


I'm not so sure about that: lots of water around means that your drinking water has a high risk of becoming polluted with industrial sewage (as now did happen in Hungary) or salty water in areas close to the sea. Abundance of water != drinking water.




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