Water Shortages in Southland

In typically bureaucratic fashion, the editorial again suggests support to restrictions on watering lawns and gardens as apparently the key solution to water conservation. I’ll bet my mortgage we “faceless dogs” will next be told to establish rigid accountability of how often we wash our armpits and flush our toilets. Come on! Is this our best shot? No way!

I fully appreciate the need for water conservation but I expect water conservation measures to be more creative, widespread, and practiced equally by all users.

It is especially disturbing to me to see construction of street medians and freeway sidings consisting of grass, shrubs and trees that require regular watering, and other maintenance we can ill afford. Where are the regulations that put restrictions on these extravagant practices and place heavy fines on violations?

I say ban the use of vegetation entirely, wherever feasible, and encourage the use of brick/stone or other materials that require no water at all. Where vegetation is permitted, the watering should be of the drip/soak type.

JIM DE LEO

La Verne