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1. tptacek · 1791145040 · focus · HN ↗

   So, basically, not a meaningful amount of water at all. Credit to the story authors for taking the time to frame what 13MM gallons actually works out to.

   1. motbus3 · 1791147110 · focus · HN ↗

      Please elucidate if I'm wrong, but, isn't the problem the distribution of the water and not the amount? If you install a building of people in a road that is not prepared for that, all people down the people are in risk of lack of water.

      I think at some point someone used the argument of the spoon of water to say about the quantity, but I remember to see explanations that it was unrelated.

      1. bryzaguy · 1791148676 · focus · HN ↗

         This feels like an important point! People comparing to leaks (or other distributed examples that aggregate similarly) are not thinking about how the amount of water used in a single location changes the scale.

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