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Clearly. I was just considering the drought in the west of US lately and the statement "is now becoming".

Personally I live in Norway where we wash our garbage and shower in high quality drinking water. I still find it absurd from time to time, considering the lack of fresh water in many places in the world.

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We've got a similar situation going on in Slovenia. I don't know if we have more fresh water than Norway, or not, but there are towns that get 3meters of rainfall per year.

One such town has an area of 25km^2, that's 25,000,000 square meters. Which means that on an average year, 75,000,000 cubic meters of fresh drinkable water fall from the sky.

Comparing that to stats in the grandparent post: 14 times as much drinking water falls on a tiny town in a tiny European country, as the whole world needs for drinking.

That's crazy.


Somewhere in your calculation there's an error.

75,000,000 cubic meters of fresh drinkable water fall from the sky per year divided by ( 0.002 cubic meters of drinking water needed per person per day x 365 days in a year ) = 103,000,000 people quenched per year.

Your tiny town gets enough fresh water from the sky for 103 million people -- still impressive.




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