• Vinstaal0@feddit.nl
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    16 days ago

    Not the person who you replied to, but if you could trade all the cars in the world to go back to using rainwater to shower/flush toilets and buy drink water I think we should take that deal.

    It has already been proven countless times that having walkable/bikeable cities with the adition of public transport is better for our health and the environment. Most countries don’t even have drinkable water out of the tap anyway.

    The only issue is that it doesn’t rain enough in a lot of countries to keep up with our water usage for showering/flushing toilets, but infrastructure to move water is as old as the Roman’s, so we would find a way again.

    • dbtng@eviltoast.org
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      15 days ago

      My friend, we have a way. Many ways. We don’t need to find one. But we keep doing that too.
      You are proposing civil engineering projects to deliver water to the people. Yes, that is how we do it.
      The other fine contributor to this discussion posited dragging barrels of water from the river as if that would be a good thing. This is a perspective that I cannot support.