Maybe one of these days our leaders will get a clue. Like maybe when it finally occurs to them to allow offshore drilling too. ;-)
I wouldn’t count on their getting a clue.
True Story:
I lived in Santa Barbara in the early 90’s during that “desperate” drought. No lawn watering. Water rates tripled to force conservation. We turned off the shower while lathering and no running the faucet while brushing your teeth. Car wash...ha!
Then the gubmint do-gooders really got involved. They offered free low-flow toilets to all takers. Typically, it didn’t occur to them that apartment owners would take advantage. Every multi-family rental and apartment complex had “mountains” of old toilets piled up. The costs soared. And it caused a landfill crisis trying to find room for all that porcelain...not to mention the hauling fees to collect them.
This went on for about 2 years. And then one day we woke up to an enormous photo on the front page of the morning paper. It showed firemen, in the dark of night, aiming their hoses down a manhole. Turns out all those low-flows didn’t produce enough effluent to move the, er, “solids” through the sewer system. So the city had been sending firemen out every night to add water to the sewers...water WE had been conserving!
Gubmint. Ain’t good for nuthin’.