Five Drops turns AI use into a water ledger

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The project combines a modeled global ledger with a local calculator rather than presenting only a single headline statistic. Users enter daily counts for search, text, image, video, slide, and coding prompts, select a country, and are shown water, energy, carbon, showers, and bottle equivalents. The page gives a specific conversion basis—65 litres for a six-minute shower—and says country contributions are aggregated and anonymized. Its estimates depend on stated research and modeling assumptions whose underlying citations are not visible in the extract.