water to clean your driveway

I was raised in a part of the country where the same cup of water was consumed 100 times before it went to the ocean. In california we believe that is gross and just want anything used to go away, down the drain and into the sea.

Because of this, we use water as if it is infinitely available, even, I see, to wash down a driveway instead of brooming.

Now our farmers of this "Caddilac Desert" are screaming because they can not grow crops that were destined for wetter environments. I am sorry for them, their paradigm was built on a water economy that was artificial and could not sustain itself forever. Reality is a hard teacher. We have a dry tap and thirsty people!

The world needs to look at water as more precious than oil, and expend the energy to keep it, reuse it and recycle it. Only then can we stop mining the earth for even more water and the minerals, such as arsenic, that come from the deeper aquifers.