Thoughts on western states building a pipeline to take water from the Mississippi river??

[Sympthsical]

92. God is this true right now

We live in a fairly affluent enclave in the Bay Area. Most mornings around dawn I walk a mile to the gym. This entails passing every lawn ever with their in-ground sprinkler systems doing their thing. Our public lands in the neighborhood use reclaimed water and are also automated in-ground.

The area is so green, you'd think you were passing a misty morning through Tipperary.

Then there's us. We're water conscious. We also have in-ground electronically controlled, but we use it manually. Maybe once a week I flick it on on my way out the door. Things are pretty brown. We're basically at, "Just enough so the grass doesn't actually die." We have a five gallon bucket in the shower that we'll throw onto outdoor plants or driest grass.

So when you go down our street, it's green lawn, green lawn, green lawn, then "WTF are these people doing?" at the end, which is us.

I keep joking to my partner that we've become "those people" in the neighborhood, and maybe I should just put a car up on cinder blocks to really cement in our reputation. It's, like, we just got solar. I'm not replacing one utility bill for another by watering the hell out of everything. We've discussed replacing at least the front lawn with a desert set up (which no one in this neighborhood has). It just feels like a lot of work right now and neither of us are in a position to start a project.

But oh yeah. People with money do not give a shit we're going through a historic drought.