Potholes, a solution.

We all complain about potholes and damaged road surfaces, but do most of us actually do anything about it? We just think the city isn’t doing its job. Well, what are they going to do, drive every street and look for damage themselves?

So, it’s our tax dollars and we have a right to complain, but not if you don’t do your part as a proactive citizen. So if you are in Los Angeles you can report potholes and a bunch of other things to the city using this site www.lacity.org/boss Then if they still don’t do anything, well complain as loudly as you want!

Water Water Everywhere but not a Drop to Drink.

I’ve been saying it often in the last few months and it looks like it just might happen, California and Los Angeles in particular is going to have to enforce water conservation to survive a this latest drought.  Despite the huge amounts of rain we have been getting in the last week, it is not enough and our water supplies from elsewhere are also experiencing frighteningly low levels.

I am certainly an American who loves her water. I love drinking it, I like clean clothes, I love flushing my toilet, I love long showers and I indulge in hot soaking baths. But I think it is time for me to change my attitude on the resource I love the most or all these things that I love won’t be available any more or if they are, it will be at a heavy price. Imagine if water were as expensive as gasoline. That is a scary thought.

This world only has so much drinkable water on it. No matter what solutions we may invent in the future the bottom line is that everything we do will have consequences. The best thing that we can do is to start to conserve now. Not because the city is going to fine you if you water your lawn after 7:00am, but because as global citizens we should.

So, I’m going to make a promise here that I will do everything in my power to conserve water and I hope that, even if you live in a place with plenty of water, you will join me.