And we could ALL help, by filling every plastic bottle with water, and putting the cap back on.... before recycling the bottle. The folks having to recycle the bottles may hate you because your recycling bin is now 8.33 pounds of liquid per gallon heavier.... but they could ship it to California and they could dump it out, there. I have my water straight out of the well. FEDGOV Inc. has not figured out how to tax me yet on pumping my own water... and let me tell you, fellow FReepers, the water that I pump out of the ground, is 10,000x better than ANY municipal water that I have tasted. Maybe I will use the rain water to fill the containers.
Back a few years there was a 40 year drought a friend told me experienced in NC. The lib legislature, the tax and spend leftie legislature catering to the urban voters, actually proposed water meters be required on wells on private land. So that the usage could be taxed (oh, and monitored). So it could happen— oregon has initiated tax by the mile automobile tax above and beyond gas tax. Looons.