🔗 Water use literacy | Thought Shrapnel

While we should always be cognisant of the amount of the energy and water used to provide us with new (and existing) technologies, I think there’s a lack of statistical numeracy going on here. For example, in the UK, 51 litres of water per person are lost due to leakage every day. That’s over a trillion litres per year!

I think it's true too that we're just very unaware about resource use across the spectrum. All of our resources are limited and the common practice, especially in the Global North, is to use without concern. Whether it's water, top soil, forests, rare earth minerals, fossil fuels, we just go at it full on.