Nation's largest water supplier declares drought emergency

Considering 80% of the water in CA is consumed by commercial agriculture I was surprised to see that 75% of all the water in SoCal is consumed by people and businesses watering their lawns! Lawns are kind of stupid most of the time, but some places should probably just give up on them.

I bet that people will not make meaningful water-usage changes unless it's controlled with price.

Seems like stormwater capture could help.

"More water is running down the river into the ocean than what Los Angeles would use in close to a year."[1]

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“It’s the fault of 20th century thinking about water, which was to get rid of stormwater; get rid of wastewater, treat it as a liability,” he said. “That’s the infrastructure we built. We channeled our rivers and we lined them with concrete so we could get rid of water. Now we know that’s a valuable resource.”

[1] https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-rainwater-lost-wet...

It occurs to me that part of this problem may have been caused by it being the nation’s largest water supplier.