Americans across multiple states are being urged to conserve water as drought conditions intensify, reservoirs shrink, and utilities issue increasingly urgent warnings. At the same time, a different kind of consumer is quietly demanding unprecedented...
  • unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish
    31·
    3 days ago

    If there’s any reason to protest AI, this is it. Another reason I’m against GitHub and their injecting AI into everything. Microsoft is shoving it everywhere to gain adoption. Pretty much every company is doing the same.

    Even at my wife’s job, their new VP says they are required to use it, “to improve output” or else. How shitty of a world we live in!

  • Waterpumpee@lemmus.orgEnglish
    27·
    3 days ago

    Similar story with Tesla’s Berlin factory. Musk even said look look everywhere is water hurr durr. Politicians folded like teen girl fans meeting their kpop idol. Fast forward factory operates and household’s waterconsumption in the far area is rationed. Turns out you cant take just all the water you see without damaging the ecology.

  • Devolution@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
    81·
    3 days ago

    maybe conservatives starving to death might be what actually brings movement. Couldn’t ask for a better set of people to die.

  • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    914·
    3 days ago

    Since it’s useful to see large numbers normalized, this is a little less than how much water all US households used in ten days in 2025 (28 billion/day per comment below) and a little under three days of the total water used for US crop irrigation (100 billion per day).

    Edit: updated household numbers per comment below

    • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      3 days ago

      Each American uses an average of 82 gallons of water a day at home (USGS, Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2015).

      estimated population was 341,784,857 on July 1, 2025, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

      That’s 28 billion gallons per day from US households. Your 300 billion number would mean each person in the US is somehow using almost 1,000 gallons of water per day.