And yet, I and many others have a lawn here in Scottsdale/ Phoenix. Yesterday the city went into a level 1 water warning. Means nothing... “Try to conserve” No penalties or rules.
Side note - The doomsday nature of this article misses the fact that Arizona uses 36% of the Lake Mead allocation. It’s not 100% dependent on the Colorado. For me- getting rid of my lawn will probably halve my water usage. That, and convincing my daughters to limit their showers to 30 minutes instead of an hour.
In other words, we’ll survive. They will not allow Hoover to become a dead pool before sending out police to ticket water abusers. There’s tons of room to reduce usage. That said, I’m not one for mandates, but this finite resource should have some strings attached.
Makes sense. Thanks for sharing.
Who takes a shower for an hour?
I'll have to time mine, but I think a long one might be 12 minutes.
That, and convincing my daughters to limit their showers to 30 minutes instead of an hour.
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That’s funny because having had three daughters, I know it’s true. They’re all adults now and paying their own water bills.
I need to remember to ask them all if they still use a minimum of three towels per shower.