{"id":52129,"date":"2015-03-20T06:20:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T11:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52129"},"modified":"2015-03-20T06:22:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T11:22:18","slug":"out-of-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52129","title":{"rendered":"Out Of Curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been curious about things like this (seen on Facebook yesterday):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3340.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3340.png\" alt=\"IMG_3340.PNG\" width=\"448\" height=\"795\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foreigners are &#8220;baffled by how much water is wasted&#8230;while other places in the world are in desperate need of water?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When foreigners flush a toilet, where do they think the water goes? \u00a0Do they think it gets destroyed? \u00a0 Sent into an alternate universe via a wormhole in time?<\/p>\n<p>That water goes to a treatment plant of some kind or another; usually the icky stuff gets separated out, and the water goes into a holding lake, where it filters down back into the groundwater, or evaporates back into the atmosphere, to fall somewhere in the world as rain, or to float around as humidity, or (mostly) sit in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s water that&#8217;s\u00a0<em>here. \u00a0<\/em>Does an American have the option of sending water from his toilet &#8211; or from the Great Lakes or the Mississippi River, for that matter &#8211; to Ethiopia or the Gobi Desert? \u00a0 Is there an alternate flush button we could push to send the water (waste-free, natch) to the horn of Africa?<\/p>\n<p>Who are these &#8220;foreigners&#8221; with no knowledge of the evaporation cycle, anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been curious about things like this (seen on Facebook yesterday): Foreigners are &#8220;baffled by how much water is wasted&#8230;while other places in the world are in desperate need of water?&#8221; When foreigners flush a toilet, where do they think the water goes? \u00a0Do they think it gets destroyed? \u00a0 Sent into an alternate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52142,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52129\/revisions\/52142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}