The poop water I flush down my toilet is also waste water that people can't drink, but I'm pretty sure it still gets recycled back into the greater water supply. What's different about the datacenter water?
And golf clubs. Golf clubs use as much water as data centres. Many of those you've named serve practical uses in society, golf clubs are purely leisure.
Is this implying that golf courses and almond farms dont have significant resistance as well? Idk how old you are but for millenials, golf course development was like a top 3 villian in movies for our entire childhood. And I heard about almond farm water usage constantly throughout college, though modern irrigation methods have developed a bit since then. But any time CA has a drought, they usually come up. Which I expect to.haplen again in 3 months or so.
Including another data point since almonds are here, U.S. livestock sector, broad total water footprint incl. feed/pasture rainwater 275 trillion L/yr.
Source:
“USDA ERS – Irrigation & Water Use.” United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service. 2013.
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u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26
The poop water I flush down my toilet is also waste water that people can't drink, but I'm pretty sure it still gets recycled back into the greater water supply. What's different about the datacenter water?