Whenever you let water run, you make your home part of the greater water system, which eventually starts with springs and ends in an ocean. You have a tiny side arm of a river in your sink!
Whenever you let water run, you make your home part of the greater water system, which eventually starts with springs and ends in an ocean. You have a tiny side arm of a river in your sink!
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roux2scour@jlai.lu · 49 pts · 62d
The most showery thought i'seen so far
Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 62d
When I go and water my pumpkins part is evaporated and part is put into ground water. That groundwater then drains to a part of the local river upstream of the treatment plant and in theory a part of the water I put on my pumpkins may go right back to my house again. A peculiar water cycle for sure. One could imagine that a few water molecules may have made the trip more than once.
CameronDev@programming.dev · 15 pts · 62d
And yet, you have to pay for those molecules each time! What a scam...
Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 62d
Thankfully not actually! I live in a region with such an overabundance of water that slightly less than 0,2% of the water volume in the river is used by us humans. The rest goes straight to the ocean. I only pay a monthly fee for the maintenance of the pipes and the water plant.
Saapas@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 62d
Also when I pee
schmorpel@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 62d
The water body - sources, rivers, sea, also clouds, also water in the soil, is a single being of enormous power. Imagine having a tiny hair of mother water in your home!
snooggums@piefed.world · 4 pts · 62d
We pull from the aquifer, which is prior to the spring!
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 3 pts · 61d
We pull from a river with a fairly large watershed which skips the aquifer too!
synapse1278@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 61d
Tap water is rarely pumped from rivers. Most of the time it's pumped from groundwater.
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org · 5 pts · 61d
True, but the tap is usually connected to a sink and wastewater systems are usually connected to a river.
Probably not, what OP was thinking, but if you think about it that way, it's even more fitting. Tiny sidearms of rivers usually flow together to form the larger river. Plus, the water in many sewers doesn't even get pumped and simply flows by gravitational force, much like a river.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 61d
Plenty of water systems have surface intakes actually. But it's certainly not going straight from the water surface to your tap.
Unless you're on the Smith River in California, then you just need a filter!
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 0 pts · 58d
What do you think a spring is
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 58d
No, when I turn on tap, the water stored in overhead tank gets dispersed out via pipes. And source of water may be from groundwater and not a river stream.
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 61d
The water from my tap (and my pee) gets dumped into the backyard. It then gets pumped out of my backyard back into my taps and toilet. My water cycle is a little bit shorter.
Photonic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 61d
Wait your pee is pumped back into your taps?
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 61d
Sort of. The septic tank drains into the ground and the well pumps it out of the ground. They're not that far apart so I imagine after a few decades some pee filtered by groundwater ends up back into the well. But I'm no expert.
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org · 2 pts · 61d
Sort of an expert here: Could be decades, could be months, could be days.
It all kinda depends on geological conditions (as well as the condition of your septic tank). Groundwater flow rates can be very different. If you have sandy soil, it will be a lot quicker than if you have a lot more silt or clay.
It should be no less than 50 days though, because in that timeframe it is usually assumed, that microbial activity in the soil as well as adsorbtion can remove most of the harmful substances.
I hope whoever built that system took that into account, though.