Jacobgame2

Jacobgame2 t1_jee0258 wrote

It might seem wasteful but it's generally more resource efficient to use fresh water. Pumping dirty water to every house would require a second set of piping to EVERY house in the UK which is already resource intensive. Then if that pipe leaked it could contaminate the clean water which will cause all that clean water to have to be thrown away. Additionally people could get sick and die from the contaminated clean water which is also resource intensive to treat.

Less of a resource issue and more of a quality of life issue. Dirty water smells if left stagnant.

So really our use of clean water for everything instead of having many different grades of water for different applications is a streamlining of the process so everything is simpler, safer and we can utilise the economy of scale.

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