title: Water is being stolen
lang: en

> Or let’s talk water. We so often hear that the world is running out of water. People are dying from lack of water. Rivers are dewatered from lack of water. Because of this we need to take shorter showers. See the disconnect? *Because I take showers, I’m responsible for drawing down aquifers?* Well, no. More than 90 percent of the water used by humans is used by agriculture and industry. The remaining 10 percent is split between municipalities and actual living breathing individual humans. Collectively, municipal golf courses use as much water as municipal human beings. People (both human people and fish people) aren’t dying because the world is running out of water. They’re dying because the water is being stolen.
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> <cite>*[Forget Shorter Showers](https://orionmagazine.org/article/forget-shorter-showers/)* ([cache](/david/cache/4b4e0a7f74cc5460343a4252a0853256/))</cite>

Always interesting to put into perspective some figures.