Water Conservation Question

And your point is?

In countries/islands like Curacao, Netherlands Antilles the locals don't have hot water heaters. Obviously, the hotels do, but even the well-to-do locals generally didn't have hot water & I learned to take showers when the pipes were most likely to be warmed up by the sun. Still froze my tushie off & it really cut my shower length down to nil. That also mean that the washing machine always washed on cold. I don't remember a dishwasher. I think it was rarely used, if there was one in the house.

I spent the week feeling guilty whenever I ran my shower to get warm water!

Then decided this morning I will not feel guilty about my warm water until people stop watering the sidewalks, planting lawns, and building a million gallon a day waterparks in drought stricken areas.

I spent the week feeling guilty whenever I ran my shower to get warm water!

Then decided this morning I will not feel guilty about my warm water until people stop watering the sidewalks, planting lawns, and building a million gallon a day waterparks in drought stricken areas.

Why don't you just kick me in the head, Scooterbug? :angry:

Sorry, I just meant that it's AWFUL hard to justify a cold shower on a Monday morning when I'll see people wasting water all day.

I try to do my part, but find it hard to get TOO extreme! Do I get let out of the doghouse a little if I don't have a lawn and rarely wash my car?

Sorry, I just meant that it's AWFUL hard to justify a cold shower on a Monday morning when I'll see people wasting water all day.

I try to do my part, but find it hard to get TOO extreme! Do I get let out of the doghouse a little if I don't have a lawn and rarely wash my car?

Put a bucket under the spigot until it heats up and use it somewhere worthwhile. Or bring it back to Lake Lanier where it belongs.

You are welcome to wash your car at a facility that recycles its own water, like we have to do up here...

We are about to go to the Supreme Court with the water war because Florida and Alabama think Atlanta wastes water...and yet, like you say, y'all are down there watering the sidewalks. We haven't been allowed to wash our cars at home in over a year.

Put a bucket under the spigot until it heats up and use it somewhere worthwhile. Or bring it back to Lake Lanier where it belongs.

You are welcome to wash your car at a facility that recycles its own water, like we have to do up here...

We are about to go to the Supreme Court with the water war because Florida and Alabama think Atlanta wastes water...and yet, like you say, y'all are down there watering the sidewalks. We haven't been allowed to wash our cars at home in over a year.

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Really? Keep us posted on that.


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Sorry, I just meant that it's AWFUL hard to justify a cold shower on a Monday morning when I'll see people wasting water all day.

I try to do my part, but find it hard to get TOO extreme! Do I get let out of the doghouse a little if I don't have a lawn and rarely wash my car?

I am working on cutting my shower time down, among other water conserving things.

Thanks, NoHall, for your info, as many times we do not realize that our actions affect not only us, but others, even far away geographically.

I've realized a lot lately that until there's shortages that affect a community, people generally don't start conserving anything. In chatting with various people lately, especially with our family making active changes in our lives to live with less "impact" on the world, it's funny to hear some of the responses. Most are very supportive, but I actually had a family member today tell me that I was crazy to want to implement some of the things that we're doing.

I hear you NoHall. Turn off the dang sprinklers. It drives me crazy when I see my neighbors sprinkler hitting into the dune lake. It drives me crazy when I see the runoff from 30A going all over the road. It drives me crazy when school children can't walk on the sidewalks in the morning because the sprinklers are going all over the sidewalks!!!! It drives me crazy when I can't see the traffic coming down 30A because of the mist from the sprinklers. It drives me crazy when the sprinkler hits my windshield when I drive down 30A. Your plants and grass will live. Turn them off!!!

MAY I PLEASE VENT?!?!?

I just returned from my merry vacation at the gulf, in a state whose authorities want all our mismanaged water from north of Atlanta. Part of our "mismanagement" involves watering restrictions that would make your tongue dry up and fall out, yet I saw a veritable plethora of folk who think that driveways and streets need to be watered--in the middle of the freakin' day!!! Most of the offenders were commercial properties/subdivisions. I saw one business who had left a hose on so long that there was literally a pond in the yard. Bat turds.

So, once again, NoHall's lessons on irrigation for grownups:

First of all, watering your grass every day is bad for it. You make it dependent on water. Water less frequently, but deeply. Your grass will develop deeper roots and will actually become drought tolerant.

Water just before dawn. If you water in the evening, the excess water sets up fungi, which is not what you want in your grass. If you water in the middle of the day, you're losing a lot of the water to evaporation AND you're damaging the plants. The droplets act like little magnifying glasses on the leaves and will actually burn them. If you water before dawn, the fungi-causing excess will evaporate before it has time to burn.

Adjust your dad-gummed sprinkler heads. You shouldn't be watering driveways and streets.

I'm going to organize a protest if this doesn't improve. Instead of having a standoff at the Buford Dam, I'm going to invite 10,000 of my best friends to the state line and encourage them to all pee in the Chattahoochee...that will provide y'all plenty of "water," right?

Most of the turf grass needs to eliminated in Georgia and Florida. I think the trend for so much turf grass started around the 1950s so people could show off to their neighbors that they had enough leisure time and money to have a lawn. Trying to keep up with the Vanderbilts. Turf grass is quite harmful to the environment and to our water issues. I am concerned that the Apalachicola oysters are in danger because someone in Georgia wants to overwater their lawn or pansies. Likewise, people in Georgia shouldn't suffer needlessly because some Floridians water the roads and sidewalks with reckless abandon.

Most of the turf grass needs to eliminated in Georgia and Florida. I think the trend for so much turf grass started around the 1950s so people could show off to their neighbors that they had enough leisure time and money to have a lawn. Trying to keep up with the Vanderbilts. Turf grass is quite harmful to the environment and to our water issues. I am concerned that the Apalachicola oysters are in danger because someone in Georgia wants to overwater their lawn or pansies. Likewise, people in Georgia shouldn't suffer needlessly because some Floridians water the roads and sidewalks with reckless abandon.

Lake Lanier's mussels have been dying for quite some time. The Apalachicola oysters can be moved to deeper water. When Apalachicola has drained Lake Lanier, the oysters are going to die...Florida can point fingers up here all day long, but once the water is gone we all lose.

Georgians haven't been allowed to water lawns or pansies for a year, and before that we were under heavy restrictions. But I agree with your statement about turf. The funny part is that the Vanderbilts didn't have a yard full of Yard Bird sprinkler heads...

Wait a minute there Ms. Nohall, we had to bring in special clean green water for western lake this weekend just for you!!!!!:funn::funn::funn:

Wait a minute there Ms. Nohall, we had to bring in special clean green water for western lake this weekend just for you!!!!!:funn::funn::funn:

That was very sweet, and I told all my friends!

My neighbor across the street from us got in trouble last week for watering his lawn in the middle of the day with a hose. The water meter person was polite to him, but the homeowner got kind of rude & I heard him say it was his right to do what he wants with his lawn. I think he got a ticket and I haven't seen him out watering since then.

He's not a permanent resident, BTW. He and his wife are from a neighboring state and come down every 2-3 months for a couple of weeks. Just so y'all know I'm not busting any locals!

My neighbor across the street from us got in trouble last week for watering his lawn in the middle of the day with a hose. The water meter person was polite to him, but the homeowner got kind of rude & I heard him say it was his right to do what he wants with his lawn. I think he got a ticket and I haven't seen him out watering since then.

He's not a permanent resident, BTW. He and his wife are from a neighboring state and come down every 2-3 months for a couple of weeks. Just so y'all know I'm not busting any locals!

He is absolutely right. He can do what he wants with whatever water he can manufacture himself. Jerk. Give me the address--I have a few extra Round-Up grenades I want to launch...:angry:

Nohall ya get rye grass seed and ya write something in the yard and in the winter when it pops all at the same time-------walla!!!!

Nohall ya get rye grass seed and ya write something in the yard and in the winter when it pops all at the same time-------walla!!!!

I like the way you think.

He is absolutely right. He can do what he wants with whatever water he can manufacture himself. Jerk. Give me the address--I have a few extra Round-Up grenades I want to launch...:angry:

Don't want that crap near my house! :shock:

I cannot imagine what Lanier looks like right now. I have not seen it in 2 years. Nor can I fathom the restrictions y'all have been under.

I cannot imagine what Lanier looks like right now. I have not seen it in 2 years. Nor can I fathom the restrictions y'all have been under.

Typical view from shore:



This one is about a mile from my house:


Lovely red clay shorelines:


We are 13' below pool right now (I think it was about 18' down at the worst) but are about to head out of the wet season into summer, so it will only get worse from here until winter.

We pray for big fat hurricanes that tear up through the Gulf and rampage to North Georgia when it gets like this. That's the only kind of rain that can save us now. Just sayin'.

Holy sh__!!!! Thanks for the post! That's insane.

Mom& dad are on Lake Oconee & have it bad but NOT like that.

Typical view from shore:



This one is about a mile from my house:


Lovely red clay shorelines:


We are 13' below pool right now (I think it was about 18' down at the worst) but are about to head out of the wet season into summer, so it will only get worse from here until winter.

We pray for big fat hurricanes that tear up through the Gulf and rampage to North Georgia when it gets like this. That's the only kind of rain that can save us now. Just sayin'.