Mayor Charles Meeker held a press conference today to urge everyone to limit their water use to 25 gallons per person. Almost on cue, the comments on WRAL’s website went through the roof, with 361 posted as of this writing. Its as if people are just waking up to the fact that, oh, FALLS LAKE IS JUST A MUDDY HOLE NOW!!!
Remember the governor urging people to conserve? He wasn’t kidding, folks, and it wasn’t just a dream. The state (and the entire southeast, for that matter) is desperately dry, in spite of the last rain we got. Falls Lake is two-thirds empty. If you haven’t already cut back on your water use, perhaps a surcharge on your bill is just the slap in the face you need.
Go ahead and keep wasting water. Go on and wash your cars, take long baths or showers, and flush multiple times a day. Just don’t whine this summer when you’re taps run dry and you’re lining up to get water from the back of a truck.
It saddens me that some people just don’t get it. I swear, kids are getting blown up every day in Iraq but ask some people to sacrifice their showers and they cry like babies. Sheesh.
You are SOOOO negative….I like to think of it as 1/3 FULL! Geesh…