Southern California Drought Forces More Conservation
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Your editorial must be responded to as it mentions a 10% cut in individual usage. We support a cut, but not in percentages.
You listed several examples of low/high gallon usage. We, using the low side, have already cut 6,650 gallons per month. (I must plead guilty to hosing the drive in the past.) Additionally low-flow toilets and shower restrictors have been installed. My past Navy training of water hours has not been forgotten.
Some others have done none of these. To now mandate a 10% across-the-board cut simply penalizes the savers and rewards the wasters. The method utilized by Ventura of 294 gallons per day based on a four-person family is far more equitable.
Let fairness enter the picture, not an easy administrative decision of a 10% reduction.
WORLEY C. and AUDREY JONES
Montclair
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