D.O.P.-T. (Sunday)

[weofodthignen]

The city finally instituted watering regulations. I wouldn't even have known about them, except this week the Mercury News people decided to give us a Sunnyvale Sun for the first time in months, and I happened to spot it in the shrubbery. Unfortunately one of the regulations is no more than 15 minutes of watering a day, which will cause me to actually use more water - I had been watering the grass front and back once a week, but I can't cycle the sprinkler through all the positions in 15 minutes while running it low, so I'll have to turn it up higher in front and split the back between two days. I also wonder how they think we will all find out about this - I doubt it will be covered at any great length on TV, and who has time for the TV news anyway?

Comments

[dubhain]

Yeah, we've been under fairly strict regulation throughout the year, over here. Not that it prevents some of the more anti-government folks from deliberately breaching the regulations just so they can believe they're sticking-up for their supposed rights and 'fighting the good fight' against anyone telling them they can't do exactly what they feel like doing, just because water's scarce. It seems that it's always 'someone else' who should be helping solve the problem. I doubt that the folks who are wasting water, here, have any conception of what actual hunger and / or thirst feels like. After all, water just miraculously comes from the taps, and food magically appears at restaurants and grocery stores....

[weofodthignen]

This particular little city has been one of the slowest to even advise people to cut back voluntarily. And they are still watering wastefully themselves. Meanwhile there are 2 places just within a block of us that have sprinklers going automatically every day, rain or shine. Presumably the city councillors never get out of their chauffeur-driven cars.