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Comment Re:Where does it go? (Score 1) 92

My guy. I don't know where you live, so I'm going to treat this as a good faith question from someone who lives near an abundant natural water resource.

Much of the country pumps water from a well connected to an aquifer. If you start to pump the aquifer faster than the baseline level of recharge, the level of water begins to drop. If you continue to pump the water out of the aquifer, it doesn't matter what happens to the water after you're done using it. You clean it, discharge it into the local creeks, whatever - it doesn't matter. The reason it doesn't matter is because it takes years of substantial rainfall to replenish these types of water resources. It doesn't just go up, you've used the water, and if you drain it below the level of the well that people have been using nearby, the water is effectively gone.

You're not understanding that drinkable water from underground aquifers is a finite resource over a given amount of time.

Comment Re:No they won't (Score 1) 92

They pump aquifers and deplete them faster than they recharge, causing everyone with a well in the area to go dry.

It's not about "destroying water" it's about building your data center in an area that has limited resources and exploiting them for your own personal gain.

Google can't put water back in the aquifer. They pump it dry, and leave everyone who lives there to deal with the problem.

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