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.
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