The Ecology of Water Consumption

Remember the old line about "water, water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink." Clean water seems to be in endless supply, but that is true only if you can desalinate seawater. That is expensive, but can be done. We take our seemingly endless water supply for granted and use it, but it is an issue of the environment. Although we’ve all heard about water conservation, or have had to turn off our sprinklers during dry seasons we get angry when there is not enough water.

Available water is a function of climate, rainfall, plus the infrastructure to catch it, clean it, reuse it, and as in desalination, create new supplies of fresh water.