Keep watering those lawns...
Out west they ought to shoot people watering yard grass or washing cars.
Swimming pools too?
A drought is an emergency. A public water supply is public. Even an aquifer or running stream is publicly owned. I do believe filling a 20,000 gallon pool should be illegal in a water emergency. Perhaps water should be rationed to 1,000 gallons a month per person in the household and you do with it as you wish. When I was a kid we lived in northern Utah for 5 years. There were 2 acre lawns kept in lush grass all summer in that desert. 1 inch of water on an acre is well over 20,000 gallons and that was kept up all summer. My elderly cousin that lived in Borger Texas had sprinklers installed and was constantly running Lake Meredith water on his grass and then paying a man to cut it every week. Doesn't make sense to me but we have rain here.
