Hi Gary, Thanks for commenting and you point is well taken. I was excited by the prospect that we could generate a renewed supply of water by desalination. It seems that more people are against that , as though we would be robbing the sea of its content. I really don't get where so many people are coming these days. They waste the resources and then complain when  we don't have enough and pay to much and then block efforts to use what is in plentiful supply elsewhere ( the oceans). Not only have we wrecked the economy and destroyed fortunes of wealth, we are also teaching people how to be dumb, dumber and dumbest. I could rant on this for hours, but for the sake of the blog post, I will stop here.

Hi Lenn, If only we could teach people living in California to do and think the way you do. Living in the desert as much of Southern Californian was originally and still is, despite the way we try to make it look differently, it is amazing to me how humans think they can do a better job with things than God did when he designed it. For now at least until much of Southern California is either in the ocean ( after the big earthquake) or the weather patterns change and we get some monsoon rains year after year, the only way to make the limited resources stretch is to conserve.

Hi Debe, When you think about it, once you get used to thinking of water as a resource and not just something that is always available, it does make us better citizens. Being wasteful with water is so easy to do when were are not conscious about it.

Hi William, I actuaLly do this. I actually use large plastic bottles and after I fill them I usually let them sit in the garage and I us them to water the a whole bunch of containerized plants outside. I have a half dozen of Interior plants and I hide the re-fillable bottle of water behind the plant, needing only about a 1/3 at a time. They are lush and they are watered by water that would be just run down the drain .

Hi Linda, I surely know what you mean. I get back east about once a year and I marvel at how green and lush everything is. Hovever, if you have ever been to Palm Desert, it is totally lush and unlike most of Southern Ca. So beautiful. But I will say my recollection of North Carolina with the mountains and forested areas are spectacular.  

Hi Margaret, They are pretty general I guess. But usually the NorthEast does not suffer these year after year droughts and folks here need the reminder to conserve. Out water problems are becoming major here. If the market had kept going with constantly building new subdivisions as was the case through 2006, there is not enough water to support all the people that live here and with the cut back in our being able to buy water from the Colorado River ( also at very low levels)it is becoming very critical.

Hi Jeff, We all need to try. Our water issues will start making news as the conservation techniques are getting more press play with the reminder message that things are getting more expensive and that the reservoirs are seriously low. The court as you remember said San Diego will have its supply cut back from the River Delta soon because of the Smelt that were being killed in the filtration system and the environmentalists won their case.

Hi Lynda, Thank you so much for dropping over. I seem to write a lot about our water issues but I can only hope that people get the message that we are getting into a serious problem here. I am for more desalination plants and if we don't soon get some of these thing underway, who will want to own property here  with no lawns and curtailed water usage with bills in the stratosphere. I think of trying to get citizens to be responsible with water use as actually trying to help protect people's property values.