Re:Honest guide to Vanlife in Japan after a year
by dahfizz on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @12:31PM
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Looking at municipal water usage per capita,
US uses 175.9 m3 per capita
Germany uses 236.5 m3 per capita
Czechia uses 57.5 per capita
So individuals in America (i.e. showering) do not use abnormally high amounts of water. The country in total uses more water because we have more farming and more industry than Germany or Czechia.
https://www.worldometers.info/water/us-water/
Re:Honest guide to Vanlife in Japan after a year
by ehnto on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @12:11PM
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You're fixating on water consumption as a measure of the impact of showering, but for a households usage it's more likely the amount of grass Americans maintain that pumps those numbers up.
I would also like to point out how massive America is, it has almost all the climates, and it has almost all the infrastructure variants in regards to where the water comes from and how impactful that usage is.
> Locals don't have this problem.
Oh they do, but for instance they use prickly heat powder in some of those tropical countries. And that's also reason why everything is airconditioned and you freeze in buses, cinemas, etc. so they are comfortable and don't sweat that much.
US water consumption per capita is 4X higher (3794 litres) than Germany (855), 9X highter than Czechia (422).
Even warm Spain and Greece have half of US water consumption, Thailand little bit over half, Malaysia less than 1/3 of US consumption, so there is no reasonable excuse why Americans waste that much water.