Sort of, but not really. The water on the input side of your tap is much more valuable than the sewer side.

It's not usable for drinking water, it is usable for greywater purposes. If you've got a septic system, it'll go through that into the local ground water, if not, it'll go into the septic sewer and eventually to a treatment plant, and from there a river.

If it was originally aquifer water, you've taken (likely) high quality water from a diminishing resource and put it in the environment.

Northern California gray water and black water is treated and sent to Southern California as drinking water.

So it depends on where you are.

Is this for real? I didn't know this. Any links?

> and from there a river.

And from there it goes to the next community downstream.

Yes, and I think their point is that the big manufacturers are just going to waste the water you saved, too.

We still get yellowpages telephone books vomited on our porch to throw away, about twice a year. Three guys in an overloaded car grace us with them, one guy on each side of the street, throwing yellowpages at houses, and one guy driving.

All paper recycling does is keep paper prices low enough that these people can afford to print these things and force them on every household in a city. Remind me why I should be recycling a renewable resource again? You end up subsidizing marginal paper using businesses, who enjoy cheaper paper prices because of the efforts of millions of people, all because society thinks tree farmers should be paid less.

Because you're a good citizen, just doing their part! Maybe if we virtue signal enough, they'll save the dolphins!

This is also an important distinction which I forgot to touch on.