I recently went to the grocer to buy oranges and they were $1.59 a pound. I realized that citrus takes a lot of water to produce juicy fruit and that the price per pound was about the cost of water.
So how are we doing at saving water?
In my neighborhood, lawns, trees, bushes, and other plant life is dying because watering twice a week isn't enough water. I hear people with dry coughs coughing everywhere I go as well, and I think it's because there is more dry dirt and dust in the air now that lawns are dying out.
The local water company is giving money back to people who get rid of thirsty lawns and plant drought tolerant plants instead, but instead I see people spending hundreds of dollars to cement in once grassy or garden areas.
Of course we must have water for drinking and water for agriculture, even more than we need water for bathing.
So sink bath between showers, shut the shower off when you are soaping or shampooing, and continue to save water.
