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Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?
CORPORATE PROFITS
Really happy with how farmers in my country just get to poison our freshwater supply AND they get government subsidies to do it. That's fantastic. So good. Farsighted even.
I used seventy gallons of water to ask grok to use less water and it just said “lol Oppenheimer quote become death”
we're living beyond our hydrological means vs. no we aren't 
Only a small amount of resources on earth
Consume them all anyway
Gasp “How could this happen?”
The defenders of western civilization, everyone! Remind me how stuffing the piggies with more more more just to enjoy seeing those gluttons eat up everything is supposed to “save” us? Dawg, they’re just liabilities. I don’t care they’re “the winners” and this is “their reward”, they are a liability.
Hydrological AND hydrodynamical?!
I read the article, but uh, where does the water go exactly?
This is a common question because we're taught about the water cycle, but it's more complicated when you want to look at usable freshwater. Aquifers rely on water infiltration which happens less with heavy rainfalls because the water runs off before it can get absorbed. Warmer air holds more ambient moisture. Snow and ice packs that feed mountain streams melt faster than they can be replenished. Basically the answer is that the water will go to lot of places that we can't easily get at it. But more simply, most of it will end up in the ocean before we can drink it.
I wonder which way this is gonna go, mass scale desalination despite the environmental costs because we're going to cook ourselves and destroy the oceans anyway, or just letting millions die of thirst in frequent regional droughts and kinda do nothing about it other than be more fascist
The second one.
100%
Thanks for the lesson! Good thing the fancy new AI is gonna tell us how to save water once it has enough data centers!
The AI is gonna be like um maybe drink less? have you heard of a stillsuit? 
now spray me with water. don't forget to poison it first