Just how good are we at managing water?

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[size 3]Anyway, here's the 6 things I said we waste[/size]
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[size 3]1-Sprinklers running while it's raining. What can we do? Turn them off of course! [#ff0000]Good answer, but way to simple. How do you get the end user (us) educated to the point that we know it’s in our best interests to turn them off?[/#ff0000][/size]
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[size 3]Or we could make water usage more expensive, or (not sure if possible/how water travel totally works) have the government or whoever of water shut off our water...Kind of like how if you don't pay for electricity, heating, and utilities how they shut those off. [#ff0000]BS; there is way too much government control on society as it is right now. We damn sure don’t need more.[/#ff0000][/size]
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[size 3]2-Fountains serving as for decoration. What can we do? Decorate the area with rocks,stones, boulders, logs,twigs, etc. Or we could have higher prices on water. [#ff0000]As I’ve already mentioned – graduated rates that increase with increased usage. See there, we actually agree on something.[/#ff0000][/size]
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[size 3]3-Not wasting Canal Water. What can we do? Lower the water level of the canal. I'm sure there's some sort of dam system like with the Jordan River, so simply put:don't allow as much to get through the dam. Every year like I said, those canals get drained and there's about 2-3 feet of water that sits there once they stop letting the water run, and that gradually drains into the ground. [#ff0000]No easy answer here. Canals were made to get water to food plants and are still used primarily for that purpose. If you shut them down we don’t eat. But cutting back on delivery to non-food plants may be worth looking at.[/#ff0000][/size]
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[size 3]4-Not overwatering /sprinklering our gardens. What can we do? Educate ourselves on just how much water is really needed to care care of the yard. Increase prices to use over a certain ammount of water. Or simply have a limit of how much water each house hold can use(Don't make it a money thing, make it so everyone has x-amount of gallons of water they can use and once its used, turn off their supply of irrigation water. [#ff0000]Why not make it a money thing; people understand money and hitting their pocketbooks gets their attention immediately. One size fits all (everybody getting the same number of gallons) will not work for the simple reason that no two users have exactly the same water requirements.[/#ff0000][/size]
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[size 3]5-Making our hygene water efficient. What can we do? Educate ourselves and change our ways! Remember to turn off the water when we're brushing our teeth or doing our hair. Then, don't fill up your bathtub brim high or take a quick shower instead. Then of course there's the higher pricing or water restriction plans. [#ff0000]All good points.[/#ff0000][/size]
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[size 3]6-Reducing the amount of fires we cause. What can we do? Make fireworks, smoking, and other potential fire starters to be illegal in anywhere there's a high risk. In your own home, keep flammable objects away from things that can catch fire! [#ff0000]Most of those ideas have been around since I was a kid and I’m 71 years young. Still good points today but not outside the box thinking.[/#ff0000][/size]
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[size 3]So the options are pretty much increases prices, have a flat amount of water that each household can use use(and can't pay more to get to use more), letting less irrigation water be released from lakes such as UT lake, Decorating yards and corners on streets, ramps, etc with objects requiring no to little water instead of fountains, and of course stepping up yourself and educating yourself/changing your ways. [#ff0000]Good points and valid. And a much better approach than just complaining about water waste. Complainers are just an irritating part of the problem. Start being more proactive by offering ideas to fix the problems and become part of the solutions.[/#ff0000][/quote][/size]
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