Today I received an email from Roger Kline of Danville, California. Roger writes: "Dear Grandmother Winsome, during the last drought here in California, each household was told to reduce water usage by twenty percent. In my house, rather than figuring out the complicated math of each of us individually cutting back, since there were five us, we simply had Aunt Lilly go without water the entire summer. Now they are asking us to reduce our water usage again. Since Lilly is no longer with us, shouldn't the water that she would have used count as our reduction?"
Well, Roger, I think that the water Lilly would have used should certainly count, but the government might not see it that way. Certain cities have publicly shamed individuals who did not comply with water restrictions in the past, and you definitely don't want that kind of publicity or scrutiny. However, this was only done to people who failed to reduce their usage at all. So, to be safe, simply have each person in your household cut a couple of minutes from his or her morning shower. If the government officials notice any reduction at all, they'll know you're trying, and won't harass you.
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