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Unfortunately, they've started rationing/cycling water days here in California (though, not our county, yet, but here tell it's coming)... because we're in a drought (peace to you, dear ANOMOS!). Could be they'll be shutting off our water, too, soon, and the article is about DETROIT (which has gone to hell in a handbag over the past 20 years), so... don't think I'll be joining that movement any time soon, sorry. Sometimes, a civic body's gotta do what a civic body's gotta do. Water is only a right... when there IS water... or enough water.

Peace, though!

Your servant and a slave of Christ,

Shellamar, who knows they won't... can't... arbritrarily just shut off water. Heck, the LAWYERS won't allow THAT...

OH I am so glad I don't live there anymore. I was born in Detroit in its Hey Day. I lived in a suburb of Detroit and it was a wonderful place to live. Now its so sad to see how downhill its gone.

Water rationing hmmmmmm, they do have the Detroit river so why can't they do some water treatment and give people water? I guess it costs money and they don't have it anymore. So Sad.

Southern California seems to have water rationing a lot, maybe Arizona and New Mexico too? Beautiful warm places to live but not enough water. No place is perfect.

See how money and capitalism ruins everything. A well planning ahead 'government' wouldn't consider the cost and these things wouldn't happen. I remember some years ago that we faced similar issues with water and there were imposed rules and fines to save water. For example you couldn't use a hose to wash your car or water your garden if you didn't hold it on your hand.

I'm not sure how capitalism and money are at fault, dear one (peace to you!), as much as "our" wastefulness... much of which is borne of our need to please the eye. If we weren't so preoccupied with "beauty" we would waste a lot less water. Whether with personal bathing (some folks shower before they go to bed, then do so again once they rise - like, what did they do to get "dirty" while they were sleeping???), plant foreign/displaced plants which require more water than the indigenous species, need to "decorate" the exterior of their buildings, let it run when they wash their cars (sometimes, multiple times a week), and more.

How is money, capitalism, or the government to blame for that? I can only see where the government might be responsible for, say, not billing (more) based on USE.

But I don't think money, capitalism, or the government can be blamed for drought. No one can be, really, although many can be blamed for waste... during a drought as well as when there is plenty. Even so, that a drought is imminent can't always be gauged/predicted when there IS plenty of water.

My thinking is that just like we have to endure when it's rained so much we have flash (or greater) flooding... we have to do so when we have little. Just tighten the nozzle and get through it.

But taking to the streets and blaming the government when rationing is NECESSARY... well, I'm not sure that makes much sense to me.

But that's just me...

Peace... and may it rain wherever it needs to and not so much where it doesn't!

Your servant and a slave of Christ,

Shellamar

We have to use the water wisely, but this doesn't mean that we ill not have a second or even a third shower when or body becomes sticky from the heat.

If water is scarce, and it usually is during a drought, dear one (peace to you!)... and there are children, elderly... and animals... who NEED it... for DRINKING/HYDRATING... excessive showering is NOT a "wise" use of water. Understanding human nature as I now do, I have NO doubt that, should the water run out, that excessive showerer would be FIRST in line for his/her drinking ration, though. It's not hard to know HOW I could know that: the same selfishness that would JUSTIFY the extra showers would ALSO compel such one to seek THEIR ration... FIRST.

A worthy quote:

"Being humble is NOT thinking less of yourself (perhaps such that you "must" shower else OTHERS - who you may not even know but care about the opinion of more than whether children have water - will "think poorly" of you)... but thinking of YOURSELF... LESS (and so, perhaps that someone ELSE... a CHILD, perhaps... MIGHT... NEED that water YOU want to use... during a DROUGHT... on a second, even third shower... to stay alive).

Do you SEE? I TRULY hope so! Because some child's life might depend on it someday.

Peace to you!

Your servant and a slave of Christ,

Shellamar

Well, the Bible also says that the wise one should prepare for calamity. A capitalist vendor won't give a s***. e only cares for making more money. What he will do is increase the price.