In San Diego, we have become quite accustomed to Bank Foreclosures throughout the area. And as things begin to ease a little in the housing markets, the residents of San Diego have a new little monster to stare down and deal with, rising water bills with mandatory curtailment of water use.
Barring a month of steady daily rain, San Diego homeowners are entering an era in which water usage is going to become an issue as significant as what we have been facing in the current mortgage and housing crisis.
While we are seeing the mortgage and housing crisis beginning to ease a bit in the San Diego real estate markets, it is almost beyond comprehension for it to be replaced by an epidemic of water bill foreclosures.
Now that we have our mandatory water conservation and water use curtailment under way, looming large on the horizon is the prospect of water rationing. And for those that have plants that survive the current water cut backs, it is very possible they will start to scream, " Save Me", "No, Save Me, My blooms are bigger", "But I am drought tolerant", "Don't believe him, he is tapping into the water main".
What's our choice to become? Choosing between a desert landscape of sand and cactus or plastic grass?
If that isn't isn't bad enough, we may soon be forced to take family showers in the next stage of cutbacks and it doesn't end there. It might get so bad that in order to have water to wash dishes, bathroom habits will necessarily have to change ( an unthinkable solution whose time may be coming soon). Low flow flushing may have to once again be redefined. This time with no rebates.
In the latter stage of mandatory cutbacks we may ultimately need to implement water use multitasking. While the sprinklers water what little living grass we have left, it may become necessary to fit in our daily showers using an organic fertilizer based body wash and shampoo combination. Additionally, washing dishes in the water sprinklers also with an organic fertilizer dish soap, brushing out teeth and filling the coffee pot, all on our allocated 10 minutes per station, 3 times per week lawn watering.
And failing to implement anything less than this new creative conservation of water multi taking effort , could result in fines that may exceed the typical mortgage. And if the water bills keep getting bigger and they surely will, we could also start to see Real Estate For Sale signs in our neighborhoods that read " Water Bill Foreclosure". Don't laugh, it could happen!
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