In my city the water comes from underground too. The problem arises when there is no rain and cleared land produces more runoff than absorbtion.
Coupled with heavy use by people ground water levels are reduced. This not only affects us but trees and plants that rely on these water levels will die off.
However, as the other commenter mentioned, normal citizen use and its affect on this is negligible. It's when you have industrial water extraction that is the real problem.
"I'm going to get you before you get me cat!"
Thoughts taken:
Is the water running into the bucket when heating?
Is the water warming yet so I can get my head under comfortably and wet it to get shampoo in?
Quick, get the shampoo rub it in before I need to add cold so I don't get burnt.
Water is perfect now, that's nice. Turn and rub it in.
Is it warm enough in the bathroom so I can afford to turn off water and lather myself?
Ok, now i'm lathered, let's get those hard to reach places.
Turn on the water. Try to aim for taps to be at the same position so I don't get burnt. (I have temperature variation from solar hot water)
Rinse, quick, let's rinse. Dont fall over the bucket Gnugit!
Turn off taps now and quick, dry your hands so you can reply to Sprunt on lemmy.
Oh, the shower timer only says ~1/4 of 4 minutes this time, that was efficient.
Hmm, maybe I can finally make a post to c/showerthoughts...
I feel for those in arid climates that can wait literally years for rain. Luckily here where we normally get 9 months of rain we are still looking at about 3-4 do there will be no worries about collecting rain water to survive.
We just had our dishwasher connected to our rainwater tank so maybe I could justify a few minutes for c/showerthoughts now.
Lucky you. The rising temperature has driven the low pressure systems south and they mostly seem to be bypassing the whole south of australia. I hope this doesn't mean now we will start getting cyclones where we are at..
Can you ship some of that water to me please?
I can get behind this, I often count little things that cost and justify it by expenditure on entertainment.
We have a solar water heater so the heating is next to free.
$55aud/month currently for the water we use.
Quick, call Rev. Gabriele Amorth so I can enjoy my ~~damned~~ blessed showers again!
Fk living in a flood plain under a resevouir. I think I would die a little from stress each time it rained.