Re:The Water Wars Come to the Suburbs
by sbf501 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @12:47PM
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Many of us do realize it and are just sitting here staring at the screen at work realizing what a horrible mistake it all was, and hoping the fall won't as bad as the movies lead us to believe.
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I am frequently reminded these days of a particular New Yorker cartoon [0].
We can still avert most of the predicted catastrophes, but we need to stop letting the people with the money just dictate policy to the rest of us to favor themselves.
Re:The Water Wars Come to the Suburbs
by imtringued on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @06:55PM
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I am sitting here, thinking that it would be an easily solvable problem if people actually cared about the sustainability of their communities.
So much this. Our town is trying. They're trying to educate people about it. They are showing people how much water we're collectively consuming per day, how much lower the water table is than in previous years etc. And it seems that nobody cares. Water consumption numbers are actually going up and I see people running sprinklers. I'm hoping the town will actually soon switch from only allowing sprinklers during the night to disallowing sprinklers altogether and actually enforcing that.
I didn't realize how much water I was using until my bill went way up. Then I started running outside to read my water meter after various activities. Showering is the #1 usage of water: 80-100 gallons per shower!!! I had no idea. Literally, it never crossed my mind because water has always been so cheap.