Save Water

California declared statewide drought a few days ago. We received several letter from our water company on the rules during the drought period. We are required to save water usage by 10-15%. If we use the same amount of water, then we'll pay about 20% more, but if we save 15% water usage, our water bill will remain about the same.

We are also prohibited to waste water. If we violate the rules, there will be fines, water flow restrictions or cut of water service. Some rules are:

• Use water for decorative ponds, fountains.
  
• Washing cars.
  
• Washing sidewalks, patios.
  
• Irrigating outdoors on consecutive days.
  

Our water usage has been low in general. But we have about 20 trees, about 10 tomato plants and several other vegetables. We need to water the vegetable plants every day. We have been recycling kitchen water to water the garden. We will just have to save more. I fixed two toilet leaks recently. This should help to cut down the water.

The water company even recommends everybody to flush toilet less often. I guess California is serious about the drought!