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Stress, strain and a hole in the ‘bucket’ plan

Posted by: Maven on February 16, 2009 at 5:53 am

From the San Diego Union Tribune, this column by Logan Jenkins:

Come July, water rationing could stress the desert we call home.

Barring a February Freak or a March Miracle, the county’s water districts will fall in step with Bigfoot, the city of San Diego’s water department, and limit households and businesses to a single “bucket,” the size of which will be dictated by 2006-07 usage minus 20 percent, give or take.

Trust me, it’s going to get ugly over the kitchen table. Don’t be shocked if violence, psychic and physical, breaks out over how to best conserve when the heat’s on high.

After attending a rationing workshop in Rancho Peñasquitos, I came home and announced that we’d best enter rehab to dry out. I’d examined the two-month water bill and discovered that our “HCF” – or hundred cubic foot (please, don’t ask) – was a moist 12, a long ways from the Spartan 7 HCF that will likely earn a ration waiver.

“I’m going to buy a big pail to capture cold water as the shower’s warming up,” I said. “We’ll empty it in a flower bed.”

“Forget it,” my wife said. “You’ll just take really short showers. No more meditation sessions in there. I’ll wash my hair in the sink.”

“C’mon,” I pleaded. “I need that shower time. I do my best – arguably, my only – thinking in there.”

“Nope,” she said. “I don’t want an ugly plastic bucket in the bathroom.”

You see where this is heading?

Read more of this column from the San Diego Union Tribune by clicking here.

February 16, 2009 · Filed Under Conservation

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