Just Stop It!

Diane, my wife, remembers when many of the homes in Tucson had well manicured lawns and plants galore.

In recent years, Tucsonans have been encouraged to conserve water. We have been asked to xeriscape (a fancy technical term for a nice desert landscaping) our yards, shorten our showers, whatever it takes to decrease our water usage in the face of drought throughout the Southwest.

Tucson Water, our local water utility, is now facing a budget deficit of just over 15 million dollars. It seems they were unable to sell enough water to pay for their expenses.

Here is an article about the crisis and what the utility is trying to do about it.

And here is a clip that I have posted before that describes some of my political ideology. Ok, not really, but it is funny.