Water Shortage - What do you do?

[judy]

Originally Posted by DianaB

We had a water shortage this summer because the flood went over our water plant. We went for several days without water but we had enough notice that the water was going to be out that we had pitchers and buckets all filled with water. The city was put on quite a restriction.

We couldn't run ANY outside water, no car washes, or watering plants. We had to take VERY short showers. My family took their baths in a pond next to our house but I still took a shower. I would get wet all over then shut the water off while I washed my hair and soaped off. Then I would turn it back on and rinse off. No baths. I drove out of town to do laundry. We didn't flush our toilets until they really needed it. We were able to cut our water usage to about half of what it had been. We used paper plates and cups so we didn't have dishes to wash. Most of the people tried to conserve water, but then there were others who didn't take the shortage seriously. The people in town who didn't conserve as much water as they should have are finding that they're paying for all of the semis who came to town carrying water for them and they're not very happy about it!!!

Payback can be a beautiful thing to watch!

[katepoet]

We live in a neighborhood built on the reservoir and the local council just approved a development that will allow a lot more houses to draw from the same water and to pollute the water - against almost everyone's urging them not to allow it. Nuts!

The reservoir is apparently 5-6 down this year and who knows when it will recover. It's amazing that they approved the greater use of this resource.