People need to quit focusing so much on their stupid lawns.

[JDPriestly]

9. I am in California. I and many of my neighbors have succulents in the

front yard. In the back yard I grow vegetables in pots.

The sad things are our trees. They need water. And they are our shade. If we don't have trees, we will have to air condition our house at great cost to the environment -- the use of energy you know.

But the saddest thing is the cost of our drought to the wild life in our area. When I water my pots and my succulents, the birds go wild.

You see it is easy to say no grass for the sake of humans, but it very hard on a duck to go to what was its pond or its arroyo or creek and find no water there. Also hard for other animals.

The answer is not in cutting back on water use although we are doing that and have done an amazing job of it in California. (I have even cut back on bath and shower water and I collect all run off water for watering my veggies.) We need to invest in desalinating water. The population of California is over 38,000,000 people. That is more than 10% of the American population. Conservation is a good idea but it will not solve the problem.

So thanks. But scolding is not the answer. We need to start desalinating water. Telling people to conserve water in California is like telling the homeless to save their money. It's really rather rude and insensitive. And it will only help so much. It really won't work.