Sacrifice for the drought

I've even heard of HOA suing home owners for NOT watering their lawns despite a state mandate to ration!  How crazy is THAT?

I'm doing a lot of the same things mentioned here, especially peeing outside! 

I did that once when the house bathroom was occupied and my back teeth were starting to float. Living in a close quarters, residential neighborhood, my neighbor really didn't appreciate that view just as they opened their blinds. I'm going to have to try to cut back elsewhere. 

I pee in my neighbors yard all the time 

There's some "glass-half-full" thinking ! Afterall, they could have opened the blinds to see me peeing in THEIR yard, not mine. Bunch of ungrateful ... 

I pee a perimiter around my backyard pond...but that's for raccoon mitigation purposes.

I'm doing a lot of the same things mentioned here, especially peeing outside! 

I did that once when the house bathroom was occupied and my back teeth were starting to float. Living in a close quarters, residential neighborhood, my neighbor really didn't appreciate that view just as they opened their blinds. I'm going to have to try to cut back elsewhere. 

I pee in my neighbors yard all the time 

There's some "glass-half-full" thinking ! Afterall, they could have opened the blinds to see me peeing in THEIR yard, not mine. Bunch of ungrateful ... 

I figure ... their cats pee in my yard so I'm returning the favor!

Thanks guys for the links. Just got done with a 3 Lagunitas piss in the flower bed!  Will look into your links on the recirc.

flying from DC to San Diego flew right over a canal system that appeared to lead to SD metro area, took few pix that i think illustrates the problem.

Here's your water source waay inland.  Some "lake" about 1 hour inland of the flight path from SD (maybe Lake Powell dammed from Colo. River).  You see there is some population and development around it, and a hydroelectric dam.  Makes sense to see those things there, close to available water. 



From this "lake" you see a canal system.  The canal meanders through arid landscape otherwise devoid of water.



Canal passes by a solar PV farm in the middle of nowhere.  You cannot discuss water without discussing energy (e.g. desalination takes gobs of energy).



Canal terminates in a lake.  Proximal to the lake you see the stark border of life and death, farmland and development in the desert.





On the flight from SD to SJC, flew over Ventura.  Again, the farmland and development around the river basin seems like it makes sense, appears natural and logical.

Here at my office/whse we have two water meters...one for landscape and one for the building. Even though we stopped watering the landscape two years ago I didn't have the landscape meter turned off as we used the "landscape" hose bib to wash kayaks and clean fish in the parking lot.

 Recently I took a closer look at the landscape water bill (separate from building) and noticed we were paying over $55 dollars every cycle (two months). Then I looked at the usage on that meter and noticed we averaged 7 gallons of water every cycle...ouch!! Called the city and asked if I had the landscape meter turned off ...what would it cost in the future to have it turned back on? The answer was $35 bucks. We were wasting over $300 bucks a year due to the fees attached to the meter even with minimal use. By noon that day a city worker came by and put a lock on the meter. 

We can still use the buildings exterior hose bib to wash kayaks and clean the fish and the added water usage barely effect our bill as we only use less than $3  worth of water each cycle on that meter anyways. Only wish I could have looked closer at the bill two years ago.

Picture one....our "lawn"

Picture two...our "building" water/sewer bill. RIDICULOUS BASE FEES