• ms.lane@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Why don’t they just use the clean and treated but ‘non-potable’ wastewater from sewerage plants?

    It’s not like the water disappears after it’s done running through a cooling loop, it’s just warm and discharged back into the sewer.

    • hash@slrpnk.net
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      25 days ago

      I’m not super informed on these systems, but looks like evaporative cooling does account for a lot of water consumption. Probably also explains why freshwater is used (to avoid mineral and other deposits.)