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Wellington firefighters may resort to sea water if shortages worsen (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 9 months ago by Ilovethebomb to c/wellington

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Just a cheerful reminder that almost half the water we put into our system is lost along the way.

Also, I live at a rural property with rain water tanks, and we have a reasonably small tank for the size of our house. We haven't come close to running out of water this summer, while we have had to get a tanker other years. It's actually been a reasonable summer in terms of rainfall.

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[–] chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Why don't we use less "clean" sources of water when drinking isn't a concern? I get that having just one infrastructure simplifies things but surely coastal cities can pipe in sea water for things like this?

[–] Munkisquisher 1 points 9 months ago

Singapore have a separate grey water line that's not drinkable, it's still not salty though

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